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I said, "Donna, if we're done here, I think I'll go get something to eat, grab a beer and watch a ball game down at The Saloon."
She said, " You know? You don't have to go. I can make you something to eat and maybe we could talk?"
"Thanks but no, thanks. I better go. Good bye, Donna."
"Bye, Kyle. I love you."
The divorce became final on a Friday, ninety days after she moved out. We both received the final decree. Sixteen years of marriage down the shitter.
I chose to sit at home and get blitzed. I found out the next morning that Jose Cuervo was no friend of mine. I knew I would have to die to feel better. I forced some dry toast and coffee down and went for a walk. There was a park about a half mile from our house where Donna and I used to go. We would sit, talk, and hold hands before things started going down hill. As I approached the park, I saw her sitting on one of the benches crying.
I said, "You too, huh. This place drew me to it this morning with memories of better times for us."
She just continued to cry and finally said, "Kyle, I miss you so damn much. I want to turn back the clock six months and say this never happened but it did. I've found I have no life without you and I'm not handling it very well. All I do is cry, here, at home, at the office, I cry."
"I know, Donna. We were each others rock for a lot of years until we weren't. It's not something you turn off because you're hurt. My anger has subsided. Now I feel only deep loss. I had to learn to forgive myself before I could forgive you. We let our marriage get away from us through neglect. We should have recognized it and worked harder. Instead, we let the devil rule our relationship. Me by neglecting your needs and you by allowing another into your body. I miss you too...every day. Maybe someday..."
"I've got to go Kyle. Sitting here beside you and not being able to show you how much I love you is killing me. I'll see you around. Okay?"
"Sure, Donna. Take care of yourself"
"You too, Kyle."
She looked me in the eye and said, "I love you." She squeezed my hand and walked away.
As she walked away, I whispered, "I love you too, My Love."
***
The end or is it. Could Kyle and Donna have a second chance together? Should they? Who knows. My vote would be no. There was too much trauma to their relationship. Then again maybe this ordeal made them realize what they had and lost with the possibility of rekindling that fire. The BTB crowd will be screaming, Hell NO, Burn the Bitch to the ground. The RAAC crowd will be screaming, YES, they are in love. Give them another chance. You decide.
Thanks for reading.
- COMMENTS
Anonymous7 months agoThe male characters in these epics have the emotional maturity of a middle-schooler, a politician's intellectual honesty, and an Iranian mullah's empathy. What's missing in these tales is any semblance of love because when they start writing these stories, the characters are created to fail. That's why the male character only feels anger and sting to his ego. That's because love makes us vulnerable, and these writers create male characters who only feel love for themselves. These stories rely exclusively on clichés because there is no real plot or story arc.
Anonymous7 months agoThe one Anon had it right about the mega-hater BTB commenters- Trumpanzees. Right out of Goodall's 'Chimpanzees of Gombe'. Indeed, I agree there would be too much trauma to salvage that marriage. Intimacy, once lost this way, is seldom recoverable. For some perhaps, but not many. I tried to stay with a wife of 12 years and two early teens after her blatant infidelity, but ultimately could not stomach it and divorced, despite her best efforts to reconcile. But i was never cruel or malevolent, and indeed mostly sorrowful. Could it have been different? Maybe, but I don't think so. You only get the intimacy back with a new spouse, which I eventually did. This author covers it well.
Anonymous8 months agoI agree with the authors final observation of there being too much trauma. The outcome that he forgave her but could not stay married to her was a realistic outcome. Her took care of her through a long recovery for God's sake after all that! He did the honorable thing a spouse is supposed to do until the divorce. Planned infidelity like this usually puts the kabosh on any future martial intimacy for a reason. Show me a reconciled marriage where the couple really shows the same intimacy as they did before an infidelity and I will believe it. Saw this happen to a close friends couple of my wife and I and they stayed together for kids and with couples therapy, but did not regain their original intimacy three years on.
Anonymousover 1 year agoOne of the most simpering excuses for a man I’ve ever read, with a an horrendous dialogue to boot. If this isn’t the end, well, it damn sure should be!
Sheesh!
