Dear LFTP: Lou, Meg, and commitment
- Lou is leaving his Alzheimer's-stricken partner of twelve years to pursue me — what is the right thing to do?
Dear LFTP: a substitute teacher writes about Lou, a fellow substitute who lived with Meg for twelve years, is moving her toward assisted living as Alzheimer's develops, and now pursues the writer — asking her to lie to Meg by posing as a school calling about a job. After the 'Secular' answer is read, the hosts are unanimous: Lou is bottom-of-the-barrel, run don't walk, and it is sad her friends say it is fine since he never committed and bails at the first sign of trouble. The segment dissolves into dark comedy about introducing Lou to Byron, and Troy joking about having fun if his own wife Cheryl gets Alzheimer's — immediately flagged by the others as different because he is actually married to her.
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