Have you been following this soap opera?

Nope. Nor do I care much about it: I'm only disappointed with some of the replies to the OP.

The fact that he is upset enough to make this post say so as well.

Perhaps it seems this way when you've been following a soap opera. The OP doesn't need emotional context, and the emotional context applied to it here don't aid in analysis.

Although, the whole point of a soap opera is that its audience continually considers it on an emotional, interpersonal level. Maybe if I joined with the crowd here and jeered at the OP for being so clearly distraught and so emotionally involved, for having wasted so much time on such unimportant things; if I advised him to get laid or go walk in the park or imbibe alcohol; if I put such a fantastic enough emotional context over the broadest gist of his post that I could then make replies entirely to that emotional context and not at all to his post? If I did these things, I might be enjoying this on the level of the OP's repliers. But I've yet to get into soap operas.

In reply to Re^4: A New Respect by ayrnieu
in thread A New Respect by Intrepid

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