"He knew her chat room thing was can of worms."
Gillian Crowley and I met at a wedding reception for a friend of hers, Margaret Tilly; that was twenty-three years ago; we were both twenty-five and single. At any rate, I was actually a distant cousin of Margaret's. I was...
"Play with fire, get burned by it."
I leaned against the hallway wall and listened to them, and I "didn't" suck it up; I sobbed instead, just like a little boy. I was quiet about it, but I did sob. I could hear him donning his clothes....
"People make mistakes, but there is always a light at the end of the tunnel."
"Mom, we don't hate dad. We never did," said Jennifer. "That's right mom. Heck, we love him, I guess. But . . ." started Randy. "Kids, I know what you mean, and your dad, neglectful as he was, and stubbornly...
"People make mistakes, but there is always a light at the end of the tunnel."
1998 I sat at the dinette table slowly rotating my cup of tea; a cup of tea I had not yet taken a sip from. Across from me, she watched me do it. Sixteen years of marriage down the shitter....
"Sometimes, not reacting to quickly is the smart way to go."
Leslie didn't actually look smug, but she wasn't real empathetic either. That she had decided to lay her cards on the table, however, had not entirely been expected by me. But there they were. "I'm sorry you found out this...
"The cuckolders have a plan, but will it work."
"So, you've broken it off permanently with her," said Helena. "Yes. There's no going back now. At least I can't think of any way," I said. "You sound like you wish that there were a way," she said. "We were...
"Nobody ever said conventional was the only way..."
It all made perfect sense. I was not the catch that my lying wife said I was. I was set up. Gloria fucked me, and that for an extra thousand dollars and then got the hell outta Dodge. Tanya had...
"She actually loves him, but he just doesn't believe her"
"He's a good guy, Conrad. He's no threat to us, and he's nobody gonna be spreading any bad stuff about us out there either. Okay?" she said. "No, it's not okay. You're either his or you're mine. Which is it...
"The patience of Job was a life's requirement for this guy."
"Harlan, you don't mind do you. The children do love to be with you," she said. I looked at my wife. She was dressed to kill, but it -Â her efforts to kill -Â was not for me; she was planning on...
"Sometimes getting the good stuff takes for-freakin'-ever!"
Sitting in a bar and crying in one's beer is a less than delightful way to live a life. That said, it is a primo way to think things over. So here was Jennifer allowing me, an old flame, an...