• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    When I came back home from the hospital after my amputation, my wife of 30 years told me she didn’t sign up for this, packed up her things and left.

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      I mean it’s right there, “for riches and in health, till inconvenience do you part”.

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        Yeah, health. Not disease or amputation. It isn’t covered by the contract. You need the premium plan marriage package for that.

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      My best friend got cheated on and dumped after he got diagnosed with epilepsy. It took a year of fits (one in which he screwed up his back) to get the diagnosis, and it basically meant he had to abandon his career path of working in the police force as a detective and forensic analyst and switch to something different.

      It also doesn’t help that they both got sacked from a call centre whilst this was going on.

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      WOOF! What?! Holy fucking shit. I am sorry bro. THIRTY YEARS? No way. I’m sorry but I even find that a bit hard to believe.

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          Lol I’m an idiot… I’m my head he left… so was very confused why he took her things…😂😂😂

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          Nice of her to pack my things I guess but now I have to unpack them again. Kind of redundant if you ask me but it’s a nice gesture.

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    I have a bit of a story to tell about this particular question.

    It’s a question I asked of myself.

    Brought on by my sister calling child protective services on me after my wife died. She left me. With four children, and I was in mourning and not dealing well.

    It led me the ask the most painful question of myself. Am I a good father?

    The answer was no.

    I wasn’t a good father. And I’m glad she made that call. It woke me up, and I changed everything around. Or at least, I hope so.

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        It was 15 years ago. It all worked out well. My kids grew up, well adjusted and loved, and we talk all the time. We’ve talked through what happened as well.

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    I was sitting around a picnic table with a few friends and a couple new people we didn’t know too well. Someone had the idea that the new people go around and predict something about each of us, who they had basically just met.

    One of them went around and said something super nice about each person, like “you’ll get that job you always wanted” or “you’ll have kids that will end up doing great things” stuff like that, kind of impersonal but nice generic predictions.

    When she got to me she stopped, looked at me really hard, and said “you’re going to die, sad and alone.” There was silence for a few seconds and then most of us started cracking up, because we were sure she was joking. But when we stopped laughing, I saw she hadn’t even cracked a smile, and she looked me straight in the eye and said “I’m serious.” Then moved on and said something super nice about the next person.

    This was more than 15 years ago and it hasn’t stopped bothering me. Needless to say, she and I never became friends.

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    I used to compete in an annual competition in high school, one year I got 4th, the next third. You needed first to progress to national level.

    A friend of my teacher said “when do you just shoot the horse” right in front of me.

    Thankfully I never saw that guy again, but Jesus, what an asshole. That was the last year I did that competition.

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      I’m so lost. I feel like I’m missing something obvious here. Are you the horse? What does this mean?

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      What an absolutely awful attitude to have around children. Forget celebrating all you achieved, or the fact that you’re clearly improving, it wasn’t good enough after two attempts so just give up forever.

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    It was two occasions about eight years apart. One was Mom calling to tell me Dad died, the other was my brother calling me about Mom.

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    “Grandma died during surgery”. I didn’t call her the night before because I thought it’d be awkward and I didn’t acknowledge the risk of heart surgery.

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            I know. I’m 60 years old. It’s happened a few times both ways. I’m not sure it hurts any less, butaybe if feelsess personal as you get older.

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              I don’t know, man, at least you’ve had long lasting meaningful relationships. I have had peace, but never got to make a family. I figure, whatever you do in life it evens out more or less in the end. There’s about as much happiness for everyone in a run. Maybe someday I might luck out and meet the woman of my dreams. We’ll get a house, get married, have kids, a family together and a good life. But if that doesn’t pan out, there’s always hookers and cocaine.

  • Beth@piefed.social
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    “When we got together you were skinny and your hair was long.” After a long conversation about my looks changing over time. It should not be shocking that he, too, aged. Anyway yeah he left me for someone ten years younger…