A 42-year-old woman was married to her 45-year-old husband for 20 years. They have a 14-year-old daughter together named Joceline.
5 years ago, their marriage fell apart because she found out that her husband was cheating on her with another woman.
“I was devastated,” she explained. “He was the love of my life, and he betrayed all of the trust and loyalty we had built up.”
“To make matters worse, he ended up in a relationship with the woman he cheated on me with. They got engaged one year later and are set to be married in two weeks. Honestly, I still am heartbroken over my divorce.”
“It’s hurtful to me that we were together for 20 years, and he could just go fall in love with someone else as if I was nothing. However, Joceline was only 9 when we divorced, and he’s a great father, so I would never want to come in between their bond.”
Joceline really does adore her now ex-husband’s fiancée, as this woman is incredibly kind to Joceline.
The secret that she is keeping from Joceline, though, is about why she got divorced from her dad, and she wants to wait until Joceline is more grown up to fill her in on that.
Her ex-husband, on the other hand, never wants to let Joceline know about why they broke up.
As some sort of a compromise, she let her ex know that she would permit Joceline to go to his wedding to this woman he cheated on her with.
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In exchange, she needed her ex to get Joceline to and from the wedding.
She had no interest in accompanying Joceline, as she knows it would be too upsetting for her to see things like the decor and the excited guests.
She did leave out the part about why she couldn’t bring herself to go with Joceline, but her ex just accepted her answer.
Well, last week, her ex called her to ask if she could get Joceline to his wedding, as he now needs to go pick up his fiancée’s parents from the airport the same morning as his wedding.
She declined to do this and questioned him about why he couldn’t pick Joceline up a day early.
His response was that he would not like to drive out there twice, and he also won’t have time as he needs to be at his rehearsal dinner.
She then wanted to know why his fiancée couldn’t get Joceline, to which he said she would be running around getting her makeup and hair done.
“I laughed and told him there was no way I’d take my daughter and that he’d have to figure it out,” she said.
“Boy, why did I say that? My daughter ran downstairs crying, face beet red 10 minutes after my conversation with her dad, calling me terrible and accusing me of not wanting her to spend time with her dad.”
“I told her that’s not the case, and she demanded to know why I couldn’t take her; I couldn’t give her an answer, and she ran upstairs crying. Now I’m getting messages from his family calling me “heartless” and “cold”…for trying to “ruin his special day over a relationship that is long over.”
Her family completely gets where she is coming from, though it isn’t making her feel any better about everything.
She does feel awful for causing her daughter to get so upset, and she’s left wondering what she should do.
Do you think she should ignore her feelings for the day and take Joceline to her ex’s wedding, or can she come up with another way to get Joceline there?
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