Learning from the past #MFRWhooks

Beth stares at herself in the bathroom mirror and sees a depressed, overworked woman. As she has done many other times in her life, she asks her deceased twin, “Where did I go, Sissy?” Wishing her sister could magically twirl a wand and make her life the one she always dreamed of, not the one she's living.

Within an hour of landing at her parents’ home in Florida, she receives phone calls from two people she trusts, that her husband has been having an affair. If that wasn’t bad enough, the next day she learns the lying, cheating scoundrel is trying to sell her company, cheating her out of millions of dollars.

Even though her life feels as if it’s falling apart, synchronicities start to fall into place helping her to discover there are no accidents in life. That even at 50 years old, she can start living the life of her dreams, find love and be happy.

The first thing out of his mouth was, “Is it too late to get rid of it?”

Pain had ripped through my heart. “You want me to get an abortion?” I looked at him, aghast. “You don’t want children, do you? You only said that to get this house.”

He came over to me and took hold of my hands. “Elizabeth, we have a good life. Children would only tie us down.”

Tears had run down my cheeks. “But if I am pregnant, maybe you will change your mind?”

“No, I have never wanted children.”

I tore my hands out of his grasp. “How could you have kept that from me?”

“I thought maybe I would change my mind, but I haven’t.”

Two days later, when I had gotten my period, I had so many thoughts go through my head. I could stay off birth control, get pregnant, and hope he changed his mind, or I could divorce him. But I knew I could not do either of those. I had married him for better or for worse.

That was the turning point in our marriage. I heard his ex-wife’s voice in my head saying that he would bleed me dry as he had done her. And that was exactly what he was doing.

I decided he was no longer going to buy whatever he wanted and hand me the bill to pay for it. I set up a bank account and put in thirty thousand dollars every month and gave him access to it and let him know that was all he was going to get from me.

3 thoughts on “Learning from the past #MFRWhooks”

Lisabet Sarai
December 7, 2022 at 6:47 am

Very dark, Marilyn.
Alas, not that unrealistic.

Adriana Kraft
December 7, 2022 at 9:09 am

A chance to start over at fifty, one of my favorites!

Janet
December 7, 2022 at 1:01 pm

That’s a lot of money each month to give someone. Is that realistic

Learning from the past #MFRWhooks

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