We took such different paths!
I learned the other day that my ex-husband and his new wife had a baby boy last week. How strange that felt to hear the news — I knew she was pregnant, but somehow it didn’t really hit me that she’d be having his child (I know, weird, hey?) until I heard the news from a mutual friend.
Perhaps it was because it wasn’t real until I heard their son’s name. I’m really very happy for them both, and I know that’s what he’s wanted for years now. I even dropped an email to the last known email address I have for him to give him and his wife my congratulations.
It’s strange how life has taken a really bizarre and winding route for us both since we parted ways in September 2000. It seems like a lifetime ago now, and I barely remember being with him, really. I guess I’ve just moved on, and obviously he has as well. We’re both on very separate paths in our uniquely different lives now.
It was still very odd to wrap my head around, regardless of the fact that I don’t feel any regret for my choices — I’m just not sure what I felt. Strange…
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my ex-wife just told me that she has gotten remarried and is now expecting a baby… i can relate…
it’s always strange when someone who you shared a mutual “don’t want to live without you” feeling, indeed does keep living and going on successfully apart from you. It’s not good or bad, just strange.
Since we’re playing one-up-manship. MY ex-wife is still living in America and about to move in with a guy that looks just like ME! But he ain’t me!!
Suddenly, I’m in the mood for drinking.
I experienced something like that recently. I was contacted by an ex. We hadn’t spoken to each other since we separated mid-2000. We went very different routes. But, I shared my feelings with her that I had during the time we broke up – and suddenly she said that I was trying to get back together with her.
It was very odd and emotionally confusing because I would like to be friends with her but not if she is still…bizarre. It reminded me of why we separated after a long relationship.
Anyway, those are my two cents.
Sadly… Neither of us (or, I can say *I* never) felt that “don’t want to live without you” feeling in the whole 12.5 years we were together. We were friends, and should have been only friends, but somehow life took that path for us both. Now, we are taking a very different approach to life, but it’s still strange to hear the changes his life has seen since we parted ways. Wake up call I guess?