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- Path: sparky!uunet!tessi!allen
- From: allen@tessi.com (Allen Warren)
- Subject: Re: Broken Engagements
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.232232.4115@tessi.com>
- Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
- References: <1992Dec24.144118.2905@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <92363.182011MXC117@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Dec31.093325.7474@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:22:32 GMT
- Lines: 52
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- tedwards@wam.umd.edu (technopagan priest) writes:
-
- >In article <92363.182011MXC117@psuvm.psu.edu> mary carpenter <MXC117@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- >>Advice on how to do it? Quickly, honestly. Don't pull any punches, but be
- >>tactful. Saying that you still love the other person may seem like a kind
- >>thing or it could be meant as a last dig. Talk about it; don't leave any
- >>questions unanswered. Then go away from each other. And stay away!
-
-
-
-
- Truer words were never spoken. I was engaged several years ago to someone
- who I had dated for 3 years before I popped the question and gave her the
- ring. We were engaged for one year, although towards the end of that one
- year, things started getting bad. She had planned to go on a backpacking
- trip to Europe for three months with a friend of hers. Before leaving, I
- kinda' knew that she'd probably come back and end the engagement, but hoped
- against hope that the separation for 3 months would change everything.
- While she was gone, I took care of her finances and paying the rent on the
- 4-bedroom house we were renting with two others, although we added another
- person while she was gone.
-
- During her trip, I got only two letters from her and one postcard. This
- was a bad omen. When she got off the plane upon her return, the way she
- greeted me (very stiff and polite) told me everything.
-
- Since I was 10 months from college graduation, I, like a fool, chose to
- continue living in the 4-bedroom house instead of moving. She decided to
- as well. Those next 10 months of my life were probably the worst emotionally
- that I ever suffered. In retrospect, the best thing would have been for me
- to move out and away, but I always hoped for her to want me back. The
- close proximity to each other really scarred the two of us. Additionally,
- she said she didn't know why she didn't want to marry me.
-
- It's been 8 years since then and the scars, even though healed, are still
- there, or, in other words, I've forgiven but not forgotten. 3 years ago, I
- took her out to dinner while in town on business ( I moved away from the
- city and state right after graduation). During the dinner, she started
- crying and apologizing for hurting me so. Additionally, she said that she
- never meant to hurt me, but was just scared about getting married and
- settling down with one person, but couldn't bring herself at that time to
- tell me. She also said that she was going through divorce proceedings with
- her present (first) husband. It turns out that she had also checked herself
- into a drug/alcohol rehab hospital after she had tried to kill herself, but
- was on the recovery road. During the dinner and talking, we both said how
- bad it was for us to have lived in the same house after the separation.
- Also, she said she wished we could have had the dinner and conversation
- we were having back when the engagement ended. It might have saved both of
- us a lot of time and frustration.
-
- allen
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