My mother's uncle..
...who lives abroad (in the West, where the streets are paved with gold) recently phoned her (as he does a few times every year). He let her know that (after his divorce from his Slovenian wife last year) there was a new woman in his life. My mother's uncle at 65 years of age has a much younger woman in his life. The age gap between them is so expansive she might even be called his mistress.
He called to ask my mother (and that was basically everything he wanted to know) whether she thought any the less of him now. Mother said she was in no position to judge, she was no superior authority on these matters; who is she to judge about it- to say without fault whether his behaviour and showing off with this new woman is right or wrong. She said it with an air of finality and decisiveness that left no one in doubt as to what exactly she thought about it. And though it was clear what she thought about this new acquisition of her uncle's, she didn't want to say it. She still refuses.
Reason or emotion?
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