Kinetico

Fortunately, I did find a full-time job as a technical writer after a few months of part-time jobs. I was hired by Kinetico in Newbury, Ohio, to write proposals and manuals for their Reverse Osmosis and other filtered water systems, which they manufactured on the site. It was a 45-minute drive to and from work daily. That job lasted until ‘98. When they laid me off, they also laid off about a third of their staff and manufacturing workers.

A Shaky Paradise

During my stint at Kinetico, Anne’s and my relationship continued to deteriorate. All efforts to reconcile our differences were for naught. Nothing I did mulified her in any way.

She had asked me to go to couples counseling with her therapist. I didn’t even know she had a therapist! Apparently, my medical coverage through Kinetico, which covered our whole family, supplied a therapist upon request, and she had requested one and had many visits that I only found out about when she decided that we needed couples counseling. Of course, I was surprised and reluctant at first; didn’t think our problems needed airing to ‘professionals’.

You may remember me talking about my less than satisfying experience with a ‘therapist’ after Lynn left. But I relented and agreed to it. After a few weeks, I asked her when the counseling would begin. She told me that her therapist told her it would be a waste of time since Anne had no intention of reconciling in any way. And that was that.

To be Continued

–LE