When Love Can't Wait (Short Story) - 8/19/2018 4:51:28 PM
I hope Cassie's and Rex's relationship works out, as it seems that Cassie is so much into Rex and is allowing him into her life just for a visit. I'm not sure if he is deciding to stay with Cassie after this, or is he really just stopping by for a visit. I hope the romance will work out for a happy ending to this story.
Sandie
When Love Can't Wait (Short Story) - 8/17/2018 8:01:40 AM
I'm with Eva. While this is definitely romance pulp fiction, I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. And that's okay if this is the first chapter of a novel. Otherwise, it appears to be totally unrealistic and downright weird. Rex comes bringing his son with him and drops into Cassie's life as her prince in shining armor? There's something tarnished about this. Too good to be true.
But you did resonate with an experience that I had 40 years ago:
On my trip around the world I visited the parents of Raj Chowdhury, one of our doctoral students, for four days in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Raj's father, Rahman, was desperate to find a suitable wife before his impulsive son decided to fall in love and marry an American woman, not of their faith or culture. He and his wife, Lilley, had retired to the United States for several years, earlier, in Houston. But returned when the businesses he had left to his brothers were having difficulty and needed his involvement. While I was there, we visited the families of three potential brides, but Rahman found none of them suitable.
I returned to the US, and months later Raj showed me a picture of the girl, about 14, in London that he had seen once when she was about 11 that he was to marry. Later, he invited the whole department to join him during a telephone marriage at 6 pm to the girl, then, about 19. When we arrived at the wedding party, Raj apologized to everyone because he had the time shift mixed up and the marriage had taken place at noon by telephone.
Six weeks later, he was to meet his bride coming from London at Kennedy Airport. I volunteered to drive him the 10 hours to Kennedy. We arrived about an hour before and Raj was smoking cigarettes and pacing nervously in anticipation of what she looked like and how she would greet him. He watched in anticipation as all of the passengers from the huge 747 came down the ramp off the plane but there was no young girl among them. He rushed up to a thirtyish Indian woman and asked her if she had seen a young girl crying on the plane, and she said she hadn't.
Finally, about 10 minutes after the last passenger had left and we were waiting all alone, a beautiful girl in a sea green leisure suit with scarlet blouse matching her lipstick came off the plane looking like a top fashion model. It was Shammi, his bride! We all rode in the front seat of my car with Shammi in the middle in silence for the first four hours or so into the night until we arrived at my brother's house halfway home for a break because I felt they both needed it and my brother's family was just a ticket for their silence and the software smiles on both of their faces.
I dropped them off at his apartment in the wee hours of the morning. About a month later Raj asked a Presbyterian minister, one of our master's degree students, to marry them in my house with a American wedding. It was very inexpensive but a wonderful wedding that I will always remember, being the host.
Raj reached the level of Dean and Professor emeritus. Shammi got her own college education. Raj and Shammi had a girl and a boy that both have good educations and careers, as well as marriages. Their marriage was not always perfect, but none ever are.
Ron
When Love Can't Wait (Short Story) - 8/17/2018 3:08:22 AM
I'm waiting for the shoe to drop.
May the bubble never burst...
Live Life On My Terms: Bipolar Survivor Story (Poetry) - 8/17/2018 8:56:48 AM
So personal I feel that I should not get involved at all. But it is a confessional of your life so far. Leaving me wondering if you have any other poetry to write.
My ex-wife's story was almost identical to yours when I met her. But she had unresolved issues that I could not resolve for her, so she moved on. I find that many women have a story similar to yours. It may be in the general nature of men and women for this kind of thing to happen.
Ron
Live Life On My Terms: Bipolar Survivor Story (Poetry) - 8/16/2018 2:06:48 PM
Bi-polar is a form of disease of the mind. It is real, and many patients have been ignored for its sickness. Only those who are suffering from it would know the damages it has caused.
What you have described of your husband was not bi-polar. Please don't make excuse for him for straying. It was probably a mid-life crisis disorder which many men have to go through. He was lucky you had taken him back, but yes, it is okay for you to divorce him for straying. No other excuses are necessary to end the marriage.
Sandie
