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Click hereAll are hungry and they concentrate on eating. Jack looks round the table and momentarily the scene is indistinguishable from how it would have looked a year before. Appearances are deceptive. He eats and knows he must decide what happens next. He wants to talk to Caroline about the children coming to live with him and decides to wait for another time.
After dinner he goes on a tie hunt with Ben and they make a game of it. In minutes he finds the red striped snake at the bottom of the washing basket in the bathroom and Ben's spirits are much improved. When Amy's ready for bed he gets her to talk about her week at school and she tells him she's learning the recorder. He promises to buy some books of exercises. They start a new story she's saved to read with him, but after a while she says, "Daddy you're falling asleep! I'm giving you Bear to hold because last time you fell asleep on my bed you squashed Panda and he was very cross."
"I'm not!" he protests and very shortly afterwards he's asleep.
They next day they go shopping and Jack imagines that with Damien gone Caroline supposes everything has been restored to how it once was. He tells her that Ben must have a proper school uniform with a spare of everything and she whirls them round the shops buying what he needs. They can't find Amy's recorder book, but he tells her he's bound to find it in Brighton where there's a good music shop. Then they shop for food and he buys a gargantuan meal for the evening and food for dinner every day of the week. Caroline lets him spend his money and says nothing, but he can see she's happy.
It's a week to the end of term, when the plan is for the children to stay with Jack. He wonders how Caroline will handle this. She'll hate being on her own, he knows, and he wonders if she'll try to see Damien in London. He mentions his plan to collect the children and she says at once that she'll bring them to Brighton.
"It'll do me good to get some sea air and I'd like to see where you're staying. The children have told me so much about the University."
He's surprised but can't object and wonders what she's planning. Does she imagine that if she tries hard enough she can get him back? Even Caroline must realise that's not realistic. But when he considers it, he knows it's just what she thinks.
To be continued
- COMMENTS
Anonymous26 days agoDamage control from the illicit lovers. Jack is back from the attack. At least the kids Don't blame themselves for their parents separation. (Consequences, Remorse vs justification)
Ridiculous692 months agoWill hubby grow a pair of us he permanently wishy washy and a indecisive loser
RePhil4 months agoWho would think so many physiologists read in the romance section. Their comments are so involved It’s like rereading the story. It seems the running theme is he is mentally weak and she is mentally delusional. Or in common speak He is a wimp and she is a slut
oldpantythief4 months agoCaroline.... Hazle... Jack needs to take a step back and think long and hard which psycho he would rather put up with. Maybe he should go looking for that female student that was hitting on him. Not sure I like where this story is heading to but I'll keep reading just to see how screwed up it can get.
Anonymous4 months agoI think the people calling Caroline stupid are missing the point. She isn’t a dumb person, just a delusional one.
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Caroline, like most people, conceptualize themselves as generally good people. She knows a good person doesn’t betray her spouse or take time away from her children to spend with her lover. So, being that she’s so obviously a good person, it must be that time with Damian makes her a better wife and mother (/s)! She did something horribly selfish and destructive and frankly professionally unethical and the only way to prevent cognitive dissonance is to convince yourself that you did nothing wrong. Or that it was for love. It’s why she needed Jack to acquiesce: she needs the man she loves to give her legitimacy for her actions.
Anonymous5 months agoHazel is even more deluded than Caroline. Where does Jack find these utter losers ?
Lunatic judgemental whacko Hazel:: "You were lucky. Especially for a banker."
Correct answer: "Without bankers, bitch, only the very rich would own a car, lt alone a house. Your vaunted university would not exist either."
Lunatic judgemental whacko Hazel:: "Why do you ask? Because all women of a certain age must have a partner?"
Correct answer: "OTHER than leaping to conclusions, do you get any other forms of exercise?"
"It's not so easy to be detached and self-sufficient when there are children," he replies.
Lunatic judgemental whacko Hazel:: "Lots of single mothers manage."
Correct answer: "Aaaand, it positively sucks for the kids. Take it from someone working with youth at risk. Less that 5% come from intact homes. The other 95% come from single-mother households. If you think they 'manage' you're insane."
Liked the earlier sections, this one was terrible, because of the bollocks you had Hazel spouting. And the lunatic idea that a man who'd escaped from one lunatic would be attracted to another. He needs to find a big stick, and every time he feels attractive to the delusional narcissist Hazel, he should hit himself on the head until the feeling passes.
One star, since there's no zero. Stopping now.
Anonymous5 months agoCaroline lives a virtual life like 'Walter Misty's. A delusion centered around self deception. (How this makes her strong, independent feminist?) It reads like the emancipation and dedication of the single financial practical single dad. What a teacher with reality experience!
Rimmerdal6 months agoFor those who can not grasp the wife's mental attitude.
It is classic Narcissist. All about "ME ME ME ME".
oldtwit6 months agoI'm still liking this, plenty of good thinking, yes know that you have had to make her stupid, but maybe cut back just a bit
