[pct-l] Hiker Therapy

[Reinhold Metzger]

Yes Switchback,
Three times a week will help, but three times a day as prescribed by Dr. 
Reinhold will be much better.

JMT Reinhold
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Switchback wrote:
> 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." -
>
>