Jessica Lynn

I heard a really tragic story a little while ago and I felt like it belonged in some movie and not an actual relationship. When I was about nine or ten years old, my mom was dating a detective named Tom. He used to take my mom, me and my sister out all the time and I remember family dinners and outings with him and so on. What I didn’t remember was that my mom and dad were still living together. I had thought that because I remembered him over my house for dinner, that my parents were seperated (as they were for so much of their marriage. I remember them apart more than together). But my dad told me tonight that they weren’t seperated and that we would go out with my mom and her boyfriend and then come home and see him. It was really sad to think that he would come home from work and wait for his kids to come home from being out with some other man that his wife was dating.

Now, I know that there was probably a lot more to the story. My dad admits he wasn’t a perfect husband and all that. And yes, he could have left my mom and everything. But the fact that he wanted to stay for my sister and me, and even for my mom just broke my heart. I always knew Sue was a heartless bitch but that’s just terrible. To parade around with another man while your husband sits at home waiting for you is just the most heartless thing anyone could ever do aside from actually bringing him along for the date. And I could tell from my dad’s tone that he was still, to this day, hurt by it. How could anyone be so insensitive to someone’s feelings?!