Out with the Old, In with the New by Nancy Robards Thompson

Author:Nancy Robards Thompson [Nancy Robards Thompson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-05-15T07:00:00+00:00

Corbin’s been in his new apartment a week now. He was able to lease a condominium at the Waverly, an upscale high-rise downtown. The perfect bachelor pad to impress young Mel-o-dy Wentworth, I’m sure.

It’s not so bad living here alone with Caitlin.

Really, it’s not.

The house is big for two, but it’s our house. Moving would mean too many changes for her six-year-old mind to process. The counselor agreed. I thought it best to have counseling lined up for when we broke the news.

I know children are resilient, but I want to arm myself with the best resources possible to help her through this. I don’t want to scar her for life or have her end up poisoned against marriage as Alex is.

The therapist agreed it would be best if Caitlin could come home to her own familiar surroundings while she gets used to her new room at Daddy’s house.

The counselor also said it would be best to alert the school to the situation. So they’d understand the changes happening at home.

So you see, this new arrangement really is best for everyone. I can cook when I want to. I can read in bed as late as I want. It’s the whole one less door to answer, one less egg to fry yada-yada-yada. Though he never knocked on the door. So I guess that part doesn’t apply. So I’ll replace it with the line in the song that talks about one less jerk to pick up after. That rings very true. Living with him was like having another child around the house.

I have so much more time for me now. Time to just sit and think. You know what I realized the other day while I was thinking?

Corbin’s been gone a long time. I just wasn’t brave enough to admit it. You know how it is. The logical part of your brain warns, something’s wrong. But your heart clouds the obvious with opaque veiled excuses: He’s quiet because he’s tired; he’s moody because he’s preoccupied with a patient’s case; or any one of the multitude of reasons the heart concocts to blind you to the obvious.

I also realized that not only has he been gone a long time. So have I.

The real me, that is. The me I used to be before I lost myself striving to be the perfect wife.

And look where it got me.

It’s like this—you dock your boat in the harbor of the American Dream and go on about your business raising a family and making a life just as you thought you always wanted. Somewhere along your well-charted course the woman you used to be jumps ship because you’ve ignored her needs one too many times taking care of everyone else. You wake up one day and you have no idea who this stranger is staring back at you in the mirror.

Of course it took my marriage breaking up for me to see clearly. But I’m sitting here wondering if it was a gradual chipping away, or

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