Blindsided Again
Today the man I have loved with all my heart, soul, mind, and body divorced me. The fairy tale love story that I thought would last forever ended in a courtroom in Charlotte, NC, where I was not present. Why go when there is nothing you can do to stop the inevitable? And just as I was blindsided by the beginning of my love for him, I was similarly blindsided by the devastating end of his love for me. My beloved David found another woman to love. She isn’t young or “hot”—but she is worth millions of dollars (a fact he brought up constantly in the months before he chose her over me and my world came crashing down). But I digress…. For the nearly 3 agonizing, torturous years it has taken us to reach a settlement, he has insisted quite forcefully that they are “just friends.” After all, she’s still married—to a man who was once a very prominent cardiac surgeon, but who now wanders peacefully through the world…his mind slowly being erased by the ravages of multiple scler...
