The New Boyfriend

Well it had to happen eventually.. the new boyfriend shows up.

The girls talked about 'mom's boyfriend' this weekend. After receiving a truly awful email and an accompanying ear bashing from the ex about my girlfriend I was astonished at the hypocrisy. Ex was caught out red handed and with it firmly stuck in the cookie jar.

I told the ex that the girls had mentioned that she had a boyfriend, let's call him "The guy that is soon going to find out exactly how much this woman costs to keep alive and better make sure he's prepared to pay the price" or "Mr. X" for short. She said it was none of my business, but she has a 'friend' and the girls have met him in a 'work environment'. Then I said that I knew about this because my daughter told me that she discovered he and her at 1am in the morning in a room in the house supposedly away from little prying eyes. Ahhh... Ex turns a slight shade of red. Then she offers the explanation that they were just 'friends' and were 'talking'. So, 'just friends' come round at 1am and 'just talk' in a room that my daughter can peer into and see an activity that is obviously not talking. Ahhh... Ex gets redder. "Okay", say she. He is my boyfriend and maybe I should tell the girls.

Well how about you tell me!!

It's absolutely to be expected that new people will come into our lives. Thank God they do because we both deserve to be happy. Life is way too short to be miserable. But, always use the same yardstick to react to that other person and always treat the ex in exactly the same way as one would expect to be treated.