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Still Happy

About five weeks after I wrote the last post (in July 2015), John went into work and found out that the new management company had decided that they could no longer work with John (and if you know John even a tiny bit, you as we did, find this a bit confusing . . . but nevertheless) and so, they asked that he step down from Vice President of Legal Affairs and Vice President in Training (I added that). Pretty much crap news all around. For many many reasons, but the biggest one is that he sort of kind of loved his job.  Not working, but who he was working with and he was kicking serious butt.  I mean it.  He got a promotion and a big old raise in June (yep, two months prior to the kick out) and he was honestly thriving.  I've never in my 20 plus years of being married (and we're not counting the four years of dating here) of knowing him, seen him so good.  Calm.  Smart.  Self assured and confident.  And good at what he does/did. So then why on earth did they lay him off, e