Another one joins the flock (Part II)

[Mike85]

GAAAAAAAH!!!

W asked me to drop the kids off at her place, since she accidentally left her purse (with her car keys) at the marina on the other side of the lake.

I was anxious about going to her new place for the first time.

I get there, and who's in the freaking front yard but the OM, shirtless and sweaty, pumping up an inflatable boat toy. Great. Getting that view of him, I just don't get my wife's attraction to him. He's obese. Not chubby, not "love handled," but obese.

Kids run to W, jump all over her and gab her ear off. I grab the kids' travel bag out of the car and OM tries to get chatty with me. When he asks "Hey, Mike, how's it been going?," with his hand out for me to shake, I replied "Same old, same old" and walked past him with the bag. Is he out of his freaking tree?!?

W and I chitchat for a bit, the kids give me big hugs and kisses, and wife tells me to have a great weekend. I tell her to do the same and somehow manage to smile and sound cheerful. She didn't give me the usual hug & kiss, but I attribute that to OM being about ten feet away and me being on "his" turf.

Leaving W and OM's place, I feel like I've been kicked in the gut. I know, I know, they're still in that honeymoon phase (it's been less than two months since W moved out), OM's admitted disdain for kids will take its toll, I just need to be patient and keep up with the DB stuff, but DANGIT that experience just sucked.

I'm going out with some fraternity brothers tonight and have a few. Play some euchre. Hanging with the boys always gets my mind off stuff.