Comments on: null and void

By: root

root — Thu, 26 May 2005 07:06:09 +0000

good look whatever

By: schuey

schuey — Thu, 26 May 2005 07:05:39 +0000

Dan, While I might have liked your courage if you’d
let at least an email adress, I cannot feel but sorry
for you and the fact that you project your personal
life into someones life that is just a tad (haha)
grander then you. While I have some reserves about
stuff, I cannot help but admire the honesty (and the
previous lies and struggle you must have been into) of
Petite. If you’d been a little motre insightful, you’d
notice that petite readership is an important part of
her life as it stands today. Respect it or be brave.

By: ontario frog

ontario frog — Thu, 26 May 2005 00:15:59 +0000

petite, your ability to show yourself under not-so-favorable light is, I think, a rare one. Anyway, it is what makes your blog not just interesting and fun to read, but also very moving (I’m thinking about the “adoption” category in particular). I’m sure you won’t let one hastily written comment put you off.

By: R J Keefe

R J Keefe — Wed, 25 May 2005 17:07:19 +0000

A second try.

This news is very moving, but responding to it is perplexing. Responding to it in a comment, in fact, for other people to read, including the author, is a novelty that our emotions and our behavior haven’t quite caught up with.

As petite says, she writes for herself. Nobody really writes for any other reason. Writing is an affliction, not an aspiration.

And petite is a good writer. You read her site because of that. And because you like the writing, you like the writer, “petite.” (I’m excepting petite’s fellow Parisians who have met her at blogmeets.) And because you like the writer, you hope that the writer will like you. That’s how we’re built. But when the response splits, when you like the writer but you don’t like what the writer is saying (just the way in which it’s said), you’re perplexed.

That split hasn’t quite happened here. I’m oddly unsurprised by the news; something that petite wrote a few weeks ago made me connect Mr Frog with Charles-Henri, the bad husband in “Le Divorce.” But I’m sorry to hear about it for Tadpole’s sake. My daughter is about petite’s age, and when she was a little younger than Tadpole, her mother decided that she no longer wished to be married (at all – and she meant it). I bawled like a baby for days, by the way, but it turned out to be for the best, as indeed I’ve spent twenty-five happy years with my dear Kathleen. But for my daugher it was not, it seems, so great. She has been filling me in, gently, on how rought it all was. I didn’t handle the part-time Dad thing nearly as well as I thought I had.

So, like Tadpole, I’m pushing for a reunion. Not really, of course – really, I’m perplexed.

By: sp999

sp999 — Wed, 25 May 2005 14:16:31 +0000

Petite,

I’ve been an avid fan of yours for over a year now and my day isn’t complete until I have read the latest from Paris. Usually I am in tears from laughing but not alas this week.

I hope it works out for you all. He’s probably in denial right now (I would be).

sp_999

By: Flavia

Flavia — Mon, 23 May 2005 21:34:58 +0000

Hello Petite Anglaise,

I am really sorry to hear the news, I know what it is to leave with someone knowing that it is going to come to an end but for different reasons you are not brave to do so. I live it.

For everything I have read, I know you are a very brave person and I know that you will do well on everything you set your mind to. Take care of you and Tadpole, but I am sure Mr. Frog will be by her side as well.

Take care, Flavia

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 23 May 2005 21:11:33 +0000

I think it’s all been said Petite. I don’t know you personally either, like so many of your readers, but I have been thinking about you these last few days. You have every right to share your experiences on your blog, and by doing so you have made a lot of people think, either about your situation, one of their own or relationships in general.
Be strong and keep that little Tadpole of yours safely under your wing (and Mr Frog’s too).

By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 23 May 2005 19:54:44 +0000

There is no “rule book for break ups” each is idividual unique, and more often than not painful to at least one of the parties involved. Pain and love have much in common.They can both come “out of the blue”, they can both hurt in their way.Love is blind, love can survive even in a cold climate, love can be fleeting or steadfast and stronger than any bond. Love needs to be fed nurtured, cherished, but most of all returned in equal measure.Pain however painful fades with time, but only true love endures.

By: Girl In Glass

Girl In Glass — Mon, 23 May 2005 18:00:59 +0000

I’ve been obsessed with your blog since I first came across it and have been rallying for you ever since reading Endings. Never once did I think, as Dan did, that you DECIDED to dump a man and DEPRIVE your daughter of her father. I do hope you don’t take what that miserable man had to say to heart. It was obvious to me, and I’m quite sure a number of others, that you you have no intention of depriving Tadpole of Papa Froggy.

You will have no clue as to how many anonymous strangers are crossing their fingers and holding their breath for you.

Greta

By: Satsuma

Satsuma — Mon, 23 May 2005 18:00:34 +0000

Almost a year ago I got some really bad news and I wrote about it extensively on my blog. My readership always shot up whenever I was in a state and I realise I’m as guilty of rubber necking with you as my readers were with me. I loved the sympathetic comments I was getting but in the end I wondered why I was putting my life on show as entertainment. I hope this doesn’t put you off blogging. If I were you I’d make the next few posts just observations of French life and that sort of stuff. I wouldn’t want you to say more than you’re comfortable with later and get put off blogging. Reading you is better than chocolate!