Then came the day she met Craig. I never thought it would bug me in any way if she got a boyfriend. I thought it would be great! But I was very wrong. I felt hurt. I felt jealous. I even felt angry and maybe betrayed.
She moved in with Craig, along with my kids. She set up a new home. A new family with my kids, it was a very bitter pill to swallow. I finally understood how she'd felt all these years. And it felt rotten.
I watched via Facebook and through conversations with our old mutual friends how Craig spoiled her and the kids. Their weekends were spent on the beach, he surfed with my son. They went hiking in the Burg. They went to Mauritius where he proposed on a kayak and she said yes. They got married. My daughter was a bridesmaid. My son was a groomsman. Craig's parents and brother welcomed my ex-wife and children into their family. They told everyone how blessed they were to be gaining them as family. She glowed with happiness. She radiated love and none of it was for me! My heart felt like it had been ripped out. It should have been me.
Don't be me. You think you will never be happy when you are in a rut. It is when you are there at your darkest that you need to grip down and try your hardest.
Today I live alone and still only see my kids occasionally. They are big now and harbour anger towards me for leaving them and their mother. Who can blame them? Of all the things Eve was, she was never the mother of my children like my original true love.
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NEVER GIVE UP
Short StoryA man walked out on his family to do what he wanted but years later he realized what he'd done
