Doing Good by Pamela Morsi

Author:Pamela Morsi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2002-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chester was sitting up in his chair again. He was in his pajamas and bathrobe and those high-tech house shoes, but he was in very good spirits. At least he was until I told him my news.

He patted my hand.

“David has always cheated on me,” I explained. “But I convinced myself that it was all meaningless.”

Chester nodded sympathetically. “That kind of thing always means something,” he said.

“I never imagined that he could love her,” I told him. “I guess I never imagined that David could love.”

“You don’t think he ever loved you?”

I shook my head.

He didn’t believe me. “I think you’re looking at yesterday through today’s glasses,” he said.

“I made him marry me,” I admitted. “I went after him, lured him in and wouldn’t let go.”

Chester chuckled at that. “I’d say that describes about half the marriages in the world. The other half, it’s the fellow who’s guilty of the luring. Either way, somebody got the idea first. But the other person had to go along with it.”

“It was easier to marry me than to stand up for himself,” I said.

Chester found that amusing as well. “It’s never easier to marry than not,” he said. “Besides, the man you’ve been talking about doesn’t sound like a spineless worm letting you call the shots for twenty years.”

“But he has,” I insisted. “I always did everything I wanted.”

“And he always did everything he wanted.”

“Yes, except for things that involved me,” I said. “Then I had to have my way.”

“Such as?”

“Children,” I said. “David loves children. He wanted to have a whole houseful. I didn’t want any. After Brynn was born, I just flatly refused to have any more.”

“But you did have the one,” Chester pointed out. “I don’t think that’s having your own way, I think that’s compromising.”

“He begged me at least to try for a boy,” I told Chester. “I said no and wouldn’t even discuss it.”

“Would that have made a difference in what has happened now?”

“It might have,” I said. “He might have been happier and more fulfilled. He might never have started playing around, and then he would never have met this Mikki.”

“What about you?” he asked. “Would having another child have been better for you?”

“Well, of course not,” I said with certainty. “I could barely manage Brynn.”

“Then don’t start trying to second-guess your past,” Chester said. “It’s like wrestling a pig, it doesn’t do any good and it annoys the pig.”

I laughed, which was exactly what he wanted.

“Don’t waste your time worrying about what you can’t change,” he said. “You need to be focusing on the future.”

“You’re right,” I said. “I need to figure out what to do. I’ve got to keep my marriage together.”

“If that’s what you want,” Chester said.

The question in his voice surprised me. Chester was a man who’d lived most of his life in another era, with old-fashioned rules. He’d married his Vera for life and lived happily with her until death did them part. I couldn’t believe that he wasn’t for keeping a marriage together at all costs.

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