It was Over, my life that I had grown so used to. The staying at home while he went to parties, quinces, weddings or just get together a, I waited..like the good wife should I waited and waited 24 years.
I had been feeling it for a while , years to be exact. A feeling I could not explain a pressure ,a weight on my chest when he would come around me. I asked him about the feelings I was having and per usual he said " Oh my god Tori Are you fukcing crazy" this was generally his response when asked what was going on with him and us.
A few years back he went thru a really dark and quiet time that he would not talk to me about. He began staying totally away from me like huggin the edge of the bed to not dare touch kinda avoidance. I asked the question he needed me to ask and his response was we needed to separate , he wasn't in love with me.
At that moment we died, he killed me in a place I never knew could hurt - my fuckin soul. I was crushed, thrown in a rusty blender and left to sit with those words kinda way. The boy wasnt home and I went to our bed and cried and cried and cried - until I felt numb. The weird thing was he refused to leave, how do you tell someone you want to seperate and then not want to leave?? Call me weird but…I would think he’d have a bag pre packed with the way he responded. Fast foward a few weeks and he was sure he had a moment of insanity saying those words to me and had loved me always and never wanted to leave -he just said what he said without thinking. This was 2018, charlie was months away from leaving for bootcamp and he had annihilated me with his careless words.
Now I sit here in 2022 and Im not in the same place I was. Texas, is home for now. Fort Worth to be exact. The boy enlisted into the Navy in 2018, he loves it but wants to change his job- but has learned so much in his dept. He knows electrical, plumbing and learning HVAC. He met and married the love of his life and they are so perfectly perfect together. They will be relocating to California this week.
My husband is still in Arizona, living with her the one who he wanted to be with, the one who made him start to retreat 5 years ago. All the years of " Are you fucking Crazy Tori's"