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Are they everywhere?
| Sun, 04-30-2006 - 11:34am |
Does it seem like "happily" married couples and families are everywhere? Kind of like when you were pregnant, and noticed pregnant women all the time?
I'd love to see a good fight between a couple...lol JK

I know what you're saying, but when my STBX & I were in public, we used to look like one of those happy couples. Just because two people are together, it doesn't mean they're happy...ya know? I have a bad habit of romanticizing other people's lives (especially when I imagine what my ex is doing right now)... I need to quit doing that. It drains me of energy I should be spending on my precious girl.
:-)
Beth in TX
So true Beth! In fact, the very day my now ex told me that he was in love with someone else (and that he'd never loved me or been attracted to me), my grandmother and cousin were oohing and ahhhing about how he and I were the perfect couple. I didn't know for sure what was up with him, but I'd had a bad feeling about our relationship for a couple of weeks at that point. I just nodded and wondered what was going on in my real, behind closed doors life. When I got home I got the shock of a lifetime.
Melanie
Oh man, a while back, I could have written your post! When I was first separated, and my son was with his dad, I would often go for a walk down on the boardwalk of a local beach. Let me tell you, it was the Mecca of happy couples! People smiling, laughing, holding hands, pushing strollers...etc. It sounds insane, but I really wanted to hit some of them. "STOP LOOKING SO HAPPY!!!" I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs.
Sometimes, I'd meet a friend to go walking. And I realized I wasn't walking around weeping with a scowl on my face, often, I was joking and laughing. Just because I was feeling lousy doesn't mean that I looked it....as is probably the case with many other people. And who knows? Maybe lots of these happy people are on their second marriages, and they WERE miserable....and now they're not!
But hang in there....I know exactly how you feel.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
Karen ~ wildlucky4me ~
LOL...I'd like to find a total package who can help handle my three. Is there such a thing? I don't think they'll take it too well when Mommy starts dating, especially my 10 year old son who's a middle child. He goes from angry to depressed to confused. Poor kid!
I guess I'll just have to realize that the world isn't perfect, even if it sometimes seems that way for some people. Some people just seem "lucky" in life, don't they? I guess my family looked happy when we were out in public. In private, my stbx and I were arguing and ignoring each other, while the children were upset and scared.
Speaking of chocolate milkshakes...hmmm...that sounds GOOD! But, I gotta lose some weight. I can't fit in last year's capris. :( (and I do want to attract that cute guy!)