For 12 years, I was married to a conventionally ânice guy.â
He never hit me. Never cheated (or at least I didnât know and we never had infidelity issues), he never even argued much.
He was calm. Quiet. Agreeable.
In the beginning I thought that meant I was safe, and I felt lucky to have him.
Because other women had worse right?
But this is exactly why the marriage eventually failedâŠHis âgood guyâ image meant he never led.
He never decided.
He never carried weight.
So I did. I had to step in and keep the boat rowing and afloat.
Financially. Emotionally. Strategically.
And eventually I was left tired, exhausted and resentful.
Because âniceâ without initiative is passivity.
And passivity turns a wife into infrastructure.
I wasnât married to a monster.
I was married to a passenger.
And I had to step off that car that was leading me to oblivion.
The physics on this are worth running because "thousands of feet" sounds terrifying until you remember that height stops mattering after a few seconds.
An M&M weighs about 0.9 grams. Terminal velocity is determined by the ratio of mass to cross-sectional area. For something that light and that round, terminal velocity lands somewhere around 10 to 15 mph. A raindrop hits you harder.
J.B.S. Haldane wrote the best explanation of this in 1926: "You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes." The square-cube law means small objects have proportionally more surface area relative to their mass. Air resistance wins.
Whether you drop an M&M from 100 feet or 10,000 feet, it hits the ground at the same speed. It reaches terminal velocity in seconds. After that, gravity and drag are in equilibrium and the candy is just floating down at jogging pace.
The content is dumb for a dozen reasons. Physics danger to bystanders is not one of them.