I am listening to the radio this morning, and the story goes like this: this woman has lived w/ and been in a relationship with her b/f for ten years. She gets a facebook page, and finds a guy she dated her senior year of high school. Two weeks later, she decides that she is going to up and relocate to Florida to live w/ the HS boyfriend. She left the live in b/f and two children behind. Now the children are grown, 23 year old twins, but they are not the live in’s kids. He helped raise them, though. As a matter of fact, the son still lives at home w/ the b/f as he has just graduate from college. The daughter lives w/ her b/f.
What the hell is wrong with this picture? First of all, you have been in a committed relationship for 10 years, and you are leaving for someone you dated in HS? Seriously folks, I don’t know that there is one person that I dated in high school that I would want to hook up with now.
Midlife crisis? Maybe. I mean, who does that? I am in the car after the dj’s had both this woman’s son and sister on the phone, both of whom have taken the live in b/f’s side. They stated that the entire family tried to talk this woman out of leaving. I shut the radio off to think on this story. I feel so bad for this guy, ten years of his life, two weeks prior this woman is still declaring he is the love of her life, and then all of a sudden *poof* and she is gone. Off to greener pastures.
I think the world has gone crazy. I am not saying every marriage, every relationship is meant to last. Sometimes you can try and try, and nothing helps, and at that point, you can look at each other, and at least know you tried.
But you don’t hook up online w/ a guy you dated in HIGH SCHOOL for crying out loud, and abandon the life and family you have known for ten years.
And yet as we all know, this kind of crap is happening more and more often. People have become disposable. If you throw one a way, a new one comes along. And when you get bored, you can throw that one away as well, and get a newer model.
I just don’t know anymore. What happened to the days when people fought to stay married, to work the issues out? Even if the fighting isn’t successful, at least you TRIED.
I guess this left me with a bunch of residual feelings of anger, hurt, and abandonment. I can completely empathize with this man, the LBS, and it has really raised some pain in my heart today. The feeling of betrayal by the SG has slowly crept back in a little, and I am just really p*ssed off.
I guess it is time to find a good memory, and rid myself of this anger. I will not allow this to create a bad day for me.
Im still standin better than I ever did looking like a true survivor feeling like a little kid Im still standin after all this time and Im picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind..
