Re: louis d/penny r
Oh god, Penny. If he's given you the impression she isn't making an effort, then he's even further from the mark than I thought. She's doing everything she possibly can for him, believe me. I can't explain to you how or why, not in detail, but Sam has been through a great deal the past few years, and she is still trying harder than I honestly wish she would to stay with Cris. She's doing whatever she possibly can, I promise you that. If he doesn't see that, I'm honestly disappointed in him.
You're misunderstanding me. I'm not saying the ways he needs to change. I'm saying that he's going to have to be willing to accept her the way she is if he wants to keep her, instead of pushing her to be someone she isn't and has been clear with him she isn't. This is about accepting their differences.
She wouldn't even tell me where her house was until she absolutely had to, and the moment all this happened she ran off to a door to be alone. You're right, the boundaries are bad. But where she goes, you can find him. I haven't seen it be the other way around.
He shouts at everyone, all the time. You know him, you must know that. Maybe you're excepted from the rule? I've been listening to everything he had to say for a year now. I listened and listened, and it didn't matter how closely. He shouts when he's being heard, and he shouts when he isn't, it's part of his character. But I have always listened to what he had to say.
And Sam has listened to him. None of this has come from ignoring what he has to say - if anything, it's come from people listening closely to what he had to tell them. No one makes Cris scream. That is simply Cris. I think some people have the patience for that, but my patience is thin with everyone, lately. I can't be the impartial mediator I am asked to be as well as siding with everyone I speak to, as I am asked to do.