My mother has a boyfriend.
She and my siblings were visiting me last Wednesday and we ended up having dinner in a restaurant and then going shopping. In the middle of fitting white stilletto boots my mother blurped out something about a previously unknown person, P. The sentence did -if I recall correctly- insinuate some romantic relationsip but the problem was that there's a family acquintance who has the same name and who is engaged. So obviously I thought my mother was talking about him. I'm sure my expression pointed that out right away because the next moment my mother said it's not him but someone else. When my siblings returned to the shoeshop I right away asked them if they knew of this (yes) and how long (long before me) and who is this guy anyway. Apparently he is a 55-year-old LVI-guy who was divorced nine years ago and has two daughters. I don't know how old they are. I don't know how my mother met him and how ling this has been going on (I believe the timescale is in months). My sister hasn't seen him. My brother (who lives with our mother) said that Mother had one day asked him how he would feel if she dated someone and a couple of hours later he had walked in. It would also appear that -according to my siblings who are far more trustworthy about this- Mother is acting like a bloody teenager and like WE were her parents, not the other way around! She tries to sneek in to her bedroom giggling in the cell phone, and won't have anyone drive her in front of P's house when they meet.
I'm not sure what to think about this. Okay, I did acknowledge the possibility -an likelihood- of this a year ago already but I didn't have a very thorough philosophising then. Now I would like to have a long list of hard facts of this guy. Like my sister pointed out to Mother, when we do meet P, he is going to have to sit through a long cross examination if Mother doesn't tell us anything herself. Yesterday I came to a conclusion how to treat P if I do meet him. He will not be my step-father. Even if they did get married (hey, anything's possible; Buh was re-elected despite of everything!) he will be just someone who is a lot to do with my family but who is not related to me. He'll just be another stranger, male, and therefore gets exactly the same bitchy treatment from me. After all, it's my mother he courts, not me.
I've been wondering what the daughters are like, what they think about this. But I suppose if their parents divorced nine years ago, they've probably faced this "Dad has a girlfriend" situation before. What if one of the daughters is a sexy lesbian? Ooo... Baaaaaad, Splenetic, baaaaad!!! But it wouldn't be really incest since we're not related.
