- Saturday, February
26th, 12:54 PM:
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- Man, I didn't
want two locked entries here, but there's really no
way around it. Because not only did she not call me
that night or the following morning...I had to
finally call her at 3 in the afternoon, and I pretty
much ended everything.
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- It was the
culmination of so much soul searching and realization
for me. Long gone was the thought of her evey actually
keeping her word to work things out as she had said on
Sunday. The fact that she didn't have enough
consideration to call me... I had to humiliate myself
and call her? I said it all in the previous
locked entry really - but now I had to say it.
Her excuse for not calling? She was scared to. You
just want to scream. HAVE INTEGRITY.
HAVE CHARACTER.
HAVE INTESTINAL FORTITUDE.
HAVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS.
All these things you want to scream, but mean
absolutely nothing to the person you tell them to
because they don't have those things.
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- I was very
calm and just explained that I felt she was incredibly
selfish and had treated me amazingly disrespectfully.
She didn't have a grasp on reality, she was
immature...OK so I kind of laid into her. I didn't
know what to do really. I didn't want to be
friends with this person...and I felt she needed
an explanation. I know she assumed I'd be hurt
that she didn't "pick me" but that's the least of it.
Her general lack of respect was the problem.
Especially considering that Joe is anything but a
prospect for a relationship. She thinks he is, she
thinks he's REALLY leaving his wife this time - but
she is just too immature to understand that the same
man who would cheat on his wife for nearly a DECADE,
is not the man you will have a relationship with. And
if he's cheating on his wife - WITH YOU,
RIGHT NOW... this is not a good prospect for a
happy, loving and honest marriage. It's funny, she
knows it too. In that infamous text message it read "I
want things to be perfect with us. I want to be
honest, I won't lie to you and you can't lie to
me". Not sure if that's a message of hope or an actual
statement to him. Obviously she can see the hypocrisy
of lying to your wife saying you're on a business trip
and fucking an old girlfriend/girl who worked for
you.
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- But she doesn't
care. And all those around her don't even know this.
So I end up looking like some jealous ex when I'm
just a hurt friend. To think she couldn't postpone
this trip for a few weeks to just spend some time
talking with me as we had done for the past week...
It's a slap in the face as a friend. She has no idea
the breadth of her choices. None. And then, to top it
all off - not call me when she got back? Knowing how
much I labored over every hour? To not even
immediately feel responsible to me at all? That's what
friends do? If you know that you're doing something
that is BLATANTLY hurting someone you love, the least
you can do is make that call. But to be scared?
I mean the spine of an amoeba man... It's just so
obvious.
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- So the call ended
badly of course. But amazingly - not even a word of an
apology. She barely said a word the entire 18:39
second conversation. As usual it was up to me to bring
everything up, to even call her, and to even resolve
things. She had no answer to anything. Got really mad
when I called her immature and added a nice bit about
me being "insane" the week leading up to the trip.
Yeah, is there a sane way to express all that to
someone in 5 days? I was as cool as I could
be. I simply took her out to dinner and tried to
talk to her. Yes, I cried a bunch. I was
heartbroken that she didn't understand what I was
saying - and somehow thought this relationship with
Joe was worth not listening to me. I felt
I had a handful of moments to try and show all
this stuff before she stepped onto that plane. And in
a way I was right.
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- The second
I hung up the phone though... I was ok. The
endless wait was over. The relief was incredible.
I was hurt for Jess of course, because the
lessons she's gonna learn with this guy are going to
be very very hard. But the positive in all of this was
- she showed her true colors SO LOUDLY that
I don't have to play what-if anymore. I don't
have to sit and wonder what-if I had made all
those revelations a month before? What if I had
this money 6 months previous... because it just
would've clouded my vision of Jessica
more.
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- And honestly -
this "lack of spine" issue was very evident
throughout our life together. As I said before
the amount of times I had to tell her "Just tell
the truth" when she was in certain situations was
outrageous. Unless constantly prodded to be ethical -
she isn't. Hell, when her family pulled the money for
our wedding, for a miscommunication between
HER and her mother... did she defend me? No,
I was the fall guy - and I groveled to her
parents to get it back on for Jess. It was the first
moment where I saw Jess really had no idea what
was "Right and wrong". Since that time, the parent's
idea of me has always been skewed - and conversely,
because she's never honest with them about anything in
her life that may make her look bad - their opinion of
her is skewed.
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- But just in
general, all communication and decisions were 99% me
prodding with her to speak or to communicate. Even the
divorce - it was like pulling teeth trying to have any
conversation. Hell she hid the fact that she was only
attracted to women (unless she has an emotional
attachment) in 2003 because she was scared of that
meaning we'd split up. I mean give me some fucking
respect! She couldn't even talk about being dperessed
out here because EEK - we might split up. It was
after constant protesting from me to LOOK at her
situation and realize that there was no way she could
raise the family she wanted. It was incessant... so
trying. I was completely alone and had to fight
to get her to do the right thing. Ugh.
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- This was really
the icing on the cake honestly. I never would have
dreamed she wouldn't call me. Would be that
inconsiderate. It still hurts honestly. And that she
doesn't get it... or hell - hasn't called me since
THAT phone call to work it out? To make
ANY STEP in ANY DIRECTION on
HER OWN!?!? wihtout being prodded and pushed.
Honestly if someone didn't pull her aside and mkae her
deal with her shit - when would she? Had I not
called - when would she have called me!??!! Honestly,
I did want to see how long it took her - but for
my own health I just had to end it. No matter how
"Wrong" that was, I just had to EAT. SLEEP. Well
sleep was bad...but at least I am eating
again.
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- AHHHHHHHH - now
I have to figure out how to end the
UNLOCKED entry for all this. I'm tellin' you the
married thing is the sticking point here. Honestly -
it's what puts this over the top. Yes she was
inconsiderate, but to think what she gave up for that?
Man... and no one will ever know. I'm not going to be
the cause of defaming Jess publically - or freaking
her family out... or even fucking up his life. Just
cause I dont agree with it, doesn't mean
I have the right to tell on everyone you know?
There's just no need. It's just unfortunate that in
this case it really changes the story. Oh well. My
true friends know the truth. And many strangers
reading the story could probably guess from my hints.
I'll hint a bit more in the unlocked entry - and
finally end this on Sunday. Whew.
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- Adam
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- Man, I'm starting
to think I should invest in some equipment and
actually record a real album again. These
songs
have a lot of potential.
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