Thursday, June 07, 2012

Don't call me pretty baby

I am so tired. El woke me up at 2:30 this morning, after I fell asleep putting Junior to bed around 9:00. She was so angry at me for not taking care of things before I passed out. We basically fought until the sun rose, El alternately fuming and crying, stabbing me in the chest first with her finger, then with a water bottle. I tried my best to just take it, but I started getting annoyed and pulled the water bottle out of her hands. I don't know who reads this other than E-word and Jer, but I'm going to write down the root cause of the strife in my marriage. About a year into my marriage I met a woman I 'befriended' on the internet. Let's call her Jewel. We corresponded quite a lot online, and even passed letters and care packages back and forth, in a totally platonic fashion. For the most part of the time we knew one another we were both in relationships, or in my case married. Out of the blue she sent me an email saying hey, I'm going to be in the DC area, do you want to meet up? I really wanted to meet her. Again, I can't emphasize enough that this was completely platonic. I really wanted to meet her as a friend. We exchanged so many emails and had gotten to know one another as well as you could over the internet. So, I agreed to meet her, and I told El (who was living in New York at the time) that I was going to be studying at school that night. This was incredibly immature of me- I wanted to meet Jewel, and I knew that El would not like it, so I lied to her. Jewel and I had a good time chatting and walking around DC. And for the third time, nothing happened. I didn't meet with Jewel with the thought anything would happen, it was really just meeting an old friend. Fast forward to 10 days before Junior is born- El goes through my email to look for our old correspondences, and she finds Jewel's old emails about our meeting. This is ten days before Junior is born. El feels completely betrayed by me, at a time when she is essentially nine months pregnant. Since this time our marriage has continued to fall to pieces. El can't forgive me, and says I cheated on her. I hid this from her with no intention of ever telling her what happened. It has been almost two years, and our marriage is just a piece of shit. El wants me to make her regain her trust, and I don't seem to be able to do it. I think I wrote enough now, I will go into more detail later. E-word, please keep this quiet. I am not ready for your wife to know about this yet. Love, Toe

5 Comments:

At 3:06 AM, Blogger jersn said...

I used to think that my life was complicated. Perhaps you should read my own post from today. Maybe not so much insight or introspection but just another side.

I'm listening to the live version of "throwing it all away" right now. Fifteen years ago, if you had asked me what was going on, I'd answer how I just wanted to get back into school. Get a girlfriend. Just be. I did that for a time.

You went beyond that, smart guy in smart places make smart decisions. The past ten years proved that to me. You, a guy I've only met once, sent me a pic of your newborn child. Never discount the people you meet or have never met.

I know it sucks. Goddamn it sucks. I would just like you to know that I'm here for you. That's a cheesy way to say it but you need a good laugh.

cheers.

 
At 10:52 AM, Blogger E-word said...

Toe, Mums the word. Whatever the fuck that means. I won't mention this. Let's talk sometime, over beer, preferably.

Keep working on it. I hope you can work through this.

 
At 5:04 PM, Blogger Toe Jaleo said...

Super late on the response to this, but I love the line 'smart guy in smart places make smart decisions'. I hope this is a true thing, and I hope it is meant for me.

 
At 5:04 PM, Blogger Toe Jaleo said...

Super late on the response to this, but I love the line 'smart guy in smart places make smart decisions'. I hope this is a true thing, and I hope it is meant for me.

 
At 10:47 PM, Blogger jersn said...

Toe, it is.

I just spent the last hour in the middle of a conversation about military coding and the only reason I was able to keep up was because I knew just enough about C++ and other random languages that have come about since then. By "just enough" I mean 1990.

I hope it's getting better.

 

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