Flange

is my favourite word

Today I told my mother that we (the wife, the me) had come to the end.

That was difficult because I didn't want her to take sides.

See, I have a proportion of blame that counterbalances the whole thing.

• I'm not such a nice guy as I like to think I am
• I have a foible, an idiosyncrasy, that's past mending in this
• I'm big, I'm angry, I'm less than sympathetic

But I'm not a bad man.