[pct-l] Hiker Therapy

[hiker97 at aol.com]

Trail Dust and her PCT husband and trail partner,?Grizzly, went to seek marriage counseling. 

When asked what the problem was, Trail Dust, went into a passionate, painful tirade listing 

every problem they had ever had in the 15 years they had been married and hiking the PCT. 

She went on and on and on: neglect, lack of intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling unloved 

and unlovable --- an entire laundry list of unmet needs she had endured over the course of 

their marriage. Especially, about Grizzly going off to go backpacking with his bros and staying
late down at the local hiker saloon. 

Finally, after allowing this to go on for a sufficient length of time, the therapist got up, 

walked around the desk and after asking Trail Dust to stand. He then embraced and kissed 

her passionately. 

Trail Dust quietly sat down as though in a daze and with a slight smile on her face. 

The therapist turned to the husband,?Grizzly and said loudly, "This is what your wife

needs at least 3 times a week. Can you do this?"?

Grizzly ?thought for a moment and replied, "Well, I can drop her off here on 

Mondays and Wednesdays, but on Fridays, I go hiking." 
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Switchback the Trail Pirate
Member of the PCT Pirate Brigade