UNDONE
I met up with Nick today. He was standing in his driveway waiting for me. He opens my door and pulls me to him. I hug him back.
“I miss you so much,” he said.
“I miss you too,” I said noticing how tired, stressed, and withdrawn he looks. And feeling relief that I did not add to his stress by bitching and moaning. I remain calm and understanding and freaking superb through what has been, still is, and will continue for a while to be a very difficult time for us.
His sixteen-year old son has moved in with him. He has cancelled his trips for the next two-three weeks, but that does not mean that I will see more of him. I will see less of him, if at all.
He is having similar issues with Nick Jr. that I was having with T not so long ago, pot-smoking, ditching school, being disrespectful. All this week Nick and his ex-wife, Melissa has had to put their differences aside. They’ve been divorced now for eleven years and are still feuding. I don’t understand how people can stay angry for so long.
Nick says that Melissa hates men.
Anyway, they spent most of this week at the hospital with Nick Jr. who they dragged to the hospital for evaluation for taking an axe to his room when they threatened to send him away to military school.
“Baby, I can’t see you tonight. Melissa and I are at the hospital,” he said.
I pictured them together. Parents forced to deal with each other by a common unbreakable bond and for a brief moment, I wonder, what if? What if their long night alone rekindle old feelings?
What if they decide to try again citing the best interest of their family?
What if?
Screw what if? I tell myself. I am not about to sit around thinking about what if’s. I am not controlled by what if’s. Nick loves me. I remind myself. He loves me. Do I not know that? What is wrong with me questioning his love and commitment to me?
I wanted to be with him. I wanted to sit long hours in a hospital room with him, but I also know that I didn’t belong there. And that knowing left me in a lonely, lonely place.
“Ok,” I said.
The following night the same thing happens. “Baby, Nick Jr. is out of the hospital, and I’m taking him home,”
“Ok,” I said.
He was silent for a moment and I did not break it. i feel us coming undone. I think that he was starting to see what I’ve known for a while now…with his travels and taking care of Nick Jr. he’ll have very little time for me.
But I’m not going anywhere. I’m going to wait until this plays out, however it plays out. I’m going to wait faithfully. I am going to stay committed. I will remain understanding and supportive and loving him.
I'm not going anywhere.
I spent the day with him and Nick Jr. who is a polite young man. Nick spends the day holding on to me as if to convince himself that we are fine.
“When will we see each other again?” he asks when I was getting ready to leave.
“I don’t know,” I said.
I have to get little C to school and get to the office. He has Nick Jr. And his traveling. I can’t go to him and he cannot come to me.
The only solution is to come together and all I feel is deep pounding unrelenting fear.




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