jmcquown wrote:
>
> On 10/22/2020 7:34 AM, Gary wrote:
> > Bruce wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 06:22:08 -0400, Gary > wrote:
> >>
> >>> " wrote:
> >>>> She deserves a solid gold medal for putting up with you for 50 years.
> >>>>
> >>>> ;o)
> >>>
> >>> You'll like this story, Joan:
> >>> We lived together for one year, then got married right after
> >>> she got the divorce from husband #1.
> >>> For our first wedding anniversary, my wife took my wedding
> >>> band to a jeweler to have it resized a bit and polished.
> >>> She also had him engrave "FOREVER" on the inside.
> >>> That was nice.
> >>>
> >>> 7 years later, she left and ran off with her also married boss.
> >>> I guess 9 years living with me *seemed* like forever. lol
> >>
> >> Maybe she knew that what you really wanted was a ferret?
> >
> > Well, ferrets showed up here 18 years later but I'll admit
> > it *did* turn out to be a very nice trade.
> >
> > Actually, all started going bad when she wanted to have
> > another baby and I was deadset against that. We already
> > had two young girls. To add another would just lower
> > everyone's standard of living.
> >
> I did not know you have two daughters, Gary. Not my business.
>
> > So she found someone else and had her 3rd baby. Then she
> > divorced him too after a few years.
> >
> That's kind of sad.

It really was a horrible and sad ending to a marriage that
started out so nice. My best friend and hopefully lifetime
partner totally betrayed me. It hurt very much.

I always thought that when the final
official divorce papers came, it would be a day to finally
celebrate that it was all over. And I even planned to go
to the ocean and throw my wedding band out into the water
as a final "goodbye."

Instead, when I got the papers it ended up being a sad day.
Kind of like a funeral.

And I wised up about the wedding band. Screw throwing it
out into the ocean. I'll take it someday to a pawn shop
and get a few dollars for it.