Tuesday, July 21, 2009

My Second Chance

My parents left this morning for Virginia. My dad has a business trip until friday and my mom and brother decided to join them. Lainey is away for the week in Tennessee. I have the week to myself. Nicole is spending the week at my house. Of course my parents are putting a lot of faith in me. They are trusting me to behave and I intend to do just that.
The only thing that I find really nice is the peace and quiet of the house and not having a curfew for a few days. It would be nice to not have one permanently. I'm 19 1/2 for goodness sake. I think I can determine when I should come home. I'm gonna be 20 years old and not be able to stay out past midnight without consulting my mother.
I also got to meet Jon's dad Saturday night at party at his house. It was fun except for this woman that kept asking questions and being really nosey about our relationship. She asked if we would get married before he left. We both just looked at each other and stated it was a little early to be thinking about that at the moment. We then walk out of the house towards the larger of the two fires only to see his father and the woman sitting with each other at the smaller fire and the seemed quite comfy.
I've heard stories of how it is when your parents start dating again but I have luckily never had to deal with that type of grief in my life. I have seen it in Jon's eyes though and it's not pleasant. What hurts him most is that his parents aren't even divorced and have only been separated for a short while and he's already dating again. He confronted the woman and she told him that if I had just gotten out of a marriage he wouldn't give me time. I found this quite rude considering she knows neither of us well enough to make such assumptions.
I find divorce to be terrible. I have never thought of it as an option. It is one reason why I ended my relationship with my last boyfriend. He talked to his friends like I was a car and you would never buy a car without test driving it would you? He also found divorce to be a good escape if you were having problems. If you truly loved me you wouldn't even think of divorce. You wouldn't want divorce. Our society relies too much on the easy out rather than trying to tough it out and work for something that you want.
What I would give to live in the late 1800's or early 1900's.

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