HAPPINESS
I spotted him in the vegetable isle at the supermarket, there was a woman clutching his arm and smiling adoringly up at him. I knew that he had a girlfriend. They lived together. She’s a school teacher.
I’d never thought about her appearance. Was she prettier than me? Is she thinner? Richer? We always want to know these things, don’t we?
I didn’t. After the breakup we had, I was just glad he had a girlfriend.
Seeing her though, my first thought was, “she’s not his type,” Richard has always been into physically fit women. She didn’t look as if she’d ever set foot inside a gym, though she is in my opinion, a very beautiful woman. I think women are beautiful in all shapes and sizes, colors and schemes.
Richard likes big breasts. She had nipples. He likes ethnic women. She doesn’t seem to have a drop of ethnic blood.
I was glad to see that he was willing to adjust his thinking and able to see deeper than outward appearance. Throw away his list of what makes the perfect woman and open his mind and thus his eyes and heart. Physically I fit his idea of perfection but he hated my independence. He hated my strength. He hated that I saw the best in everything and everyone. He hated that he couldn't change me. I have a long list of things he disliked about me.
I stared at them. They appeared in love—the way she held on to his arm and the way he let her--the way he she was smiling up at him and him looking down at her.
I spent many years with this man, and will to this day call it them loneliest years of my life.
He isn’t a bad person, not a bad man, we just didn’t fit.
I was going to walk away when he saw me. He waved to me. I waved back and met them halfway.
He introduced the woman, “This is my girlfriend Linda. Linda this is Kitten,”
I shook her hand. “Nice to meet you,” I said.
“Likewise,” she said, still smiling but her eyes were cold.
I chatted with them for awhile—her mostly. I wanted to thank her for bringing happiness into Richard’s life. I wanted to thank her for showing him that plumpness can be beautiful too, that big breast are in the grand scheme of things meaningless, and that happiness can come from anywhere.
Our breakup was devastated for him. I worried about him terribly. He didn’t date for two years after I left him.
He still insists that I cheated on him.
I still disagree. For years prior to our breakup sex had dwindled to birthdays and Christmas and then stopped all together. I stayed because we were raising T together. I didn’t want to break up unhappy family.
I threw tantrums and demanded more cock, intimacy, affection.
“If you won’t give it to me, I will go out and get it,” I warned him.
I found a man I wanted to fuck. I went home and told him. “I met this man. I’m going to fuck him. Once I do, there is no turning back. I’ll do anything to make us work. We’ll go to counseling if necessary. Tell me what you need from me to make us work?”
He kept ignoring me.
I had my fling and went home and told him.
I still can’t figure out where the cheating part happened.
But to all his family members and friends I am the woman who cheated on him and broke his heart.
I have no doubt that Linda had heard the same story and the animosity she was feeling towards me was perhaps her being protective of him.
I said goodbye to them. He looks happy. That has always been important to me.
We did not work because we just weren’t right for each other. Sometimes it’s that simple.




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