I knew it would happen.  I saw the signs.  We haven’t been happy for a long time.  In fact, I can’t remember when we were.

We don’t talk like friends.  We don’t laugh or play.  We hardly spend time together at all.  It’s either you’re busy working or with your friends, or I’m tired from being busy…with our children, chores and working too.

We were just two people hanging on, but not working at marriage.  It was inevitable that you would fall.  It could have been me.  If someone had given me the right attention…it could have been me.

But I see you’ve found someone else to laugh with.  Someone you can play with and be yourself with.  Someone you prefer to talk to and spend all your time with.  I wonder if you’ve already crossed the line…

I wonder in my darker moods what would be worse.  To be alone, hurt and dejected, but free to pick up the pieces without you…or to stay and watch you make a joke of what we once held sacred.  To hope endlessly that one day you will come to your senses and choose me again or to accept that we both…

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