There are some things that you never expect to have to face - situations that are for "other people". Stuff that is distasteful yet common to the point of being run-of-the-mill.
Again - for "other people".
Having your boyfriend meet your husband (ex) is a good example.
Never in my wildest nightmares did I expect that I would have to introduce my boyfriend to my husband. My husband was supposed to be part of ME forever, not some guest at a school event. It's hard to describe how jarring this is to my sense of how things are supposed to be.
But it happened, it is part of my reality and if you had been a fly on the wall at our daughter's high school graduation last week in Paris you would never have known that you were witnessing the total up-ending of my vision of the world.
French boyfriend met former husband of 25 years and they did an admirable job of chatting away like buddies. Score one for me to have had at least the good sense to have picked men in my life who are socially gifted. Makes the cocktail circuit easier to navigate.
We even took pictures - French boyfriend lining up former happy family, beautiful youngest daughter between her two used to be adoring of each other parents, and telling us all to smile as he snapped away.
Who would have thought?
Well anyway, we all got through it and I know that our youngest daughter breathed a big sigh of relief that maybe her life in a newly broken family has seen the last of the big dramas.
All I have to say is Thank God for the French and their supremely good sense in serving champagne to ALL at a school event. It smooths over the rough spots.
Happy to hear you survived! Hopefully it will make the future encounters easier. I see at least four weddings in the future....That is wild they serve champagne at school events.
Posted by: Stacy | June 05, 2009 at 06:50 PM
Good luck this week.
Send you best wishes!
Brigitt
Posted by: expat on the go | June 10, 2009 at 09:34 PM