Hi Everyone, I swear my life could be a soap opera!
I think we could all say the same thing, Yoyo. Too much drama. Too many soap operas.
Or is that the people who write such things don't have to look too far to find source material?
I am so sorry about your friend. It is so shocking. My sister-in-law (SIL, married to my brother, lives in Sherwood) has a life-long bff-type friend from her high school in Shreveport. The have shared everything with each other, through thick and thin, and over the many miles now between them. The friend is married to her high school sweetheart and they have a teenage son who is (I think) a "prince" or something with one of the Mardi Gras crews there. The four parents had even arranged for their son to invite my niece to be his date for some Mardi Gras formal gathering or something. (My brother likes the boy and has laughed to me about arranging an "engagement" over long distance.)
Well, you can see where I'm going with this, and you can thus guess the shock and horror to my SIL when she found out her BFF is now leaving her husband for another man. My SIL had no clue, and would have sworn she was beyond such behavior and betrayal of a man her friend had held so highly. Their son is devastated.
Both my brother and my SIL have consoled me over the phone as I have gone through the stages of pain and horror at W's treachery. And now my SIL has expressed such distress that so many seemingly virtuous and sound-minded people can be so suddenly taken by this "addiction", and that under everyone's noses such things can happen. My SIL has told me she has lost a great deal of trust, and has doubts that she can really know someone else's heart and she has a newfound understanding for me that I could not know the real heart of my own spouse. Not that she didn't before, but now it is doubled for her with this revelation.
I told her to always maintain the lines of communication with your loved ones, and never take anything in this world for granted. Chances are something will change when you least expect it.
