The neighbor we drink with, loving referred to in the past as "my drinking, porn-watching, wife-swapping neighbor" is consumed with finding out how old I am, hence the age difference between Mrs. WI and I.

I get the biggest kick out of egging her on.

__________________
Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.