It seems so common place until it hits close to home.
This all started yesterday while thinking about a couple of friends I've not had contact for a while. While I consider them still good friends, circumstances and personal routine have kept us apart. So a random bit of thought caused me to see if either of them have an account on Facebook. They do. Funny, but as I approached the idea and made contact with both of them I had a funny feeling. A rather awkward feeling...
I found out last night they are going to get a divorce. I've only heard his side of the story, but from his POV she met someone from Canada and is leaving her husband for this other guy. He says she's emotionally unstable and he's trying to keep the kids. The kids are with him now. Now they're marriage wasn't what I'd call the perfect relationship, but I'd thought they'd worked out all of those kinks years ago. It's turned slightly awkward since I made the Facebook friend invite to both of them before knowing any of this was going on. Right now I'm seriously considering contacting her and letting her know that while I know what's going on, I don't hold ill feelings toward her. I still care about both of them as friends.
I know and realize that marriage and other such relationships are very complex, and very often it's other stuff that leads to it's downfall. It's just so sad all the pain that happens with situations like this. It causes me to want to second-think any desire to be in a relationship myself. With so many people I've known who's marriages that have failed, there stands a really good argument of the benefits of being single.
On the other hand I suspect that if someone does come into my life I'll be willing to try it. Hey, after all, with a one in a million chance there still is a chance, right?
Other junk:
I do seem to remember I was going to give some sort of review of Windows 7. It's really simple. If you hate Vista and you have the money, then go for it. I've not had substantial issues with Vista to want to spend the money to upgrade. I liked it, but when I didn't use my notebook for a few days it wasn't like I really missed it.
The Acer notebook (I keep wanting to call it a laptop.) Is a pretty decent little machine for the just over $300 I spend on it. My last notebook PC was about $1200 and the only thing my older one exceeds it is in CPU speed an it's not by that much. It's nice to have a notebook with a fresh battery again, plus it runs a couple of applications I've wanted to use but the older one didn't. It's not a good one for gaming (Which I don't do, really) and it's certainly not a powerhouse, but it's a complete PC, as it has a full size keyboard with key-pad, DVD drive, a very bright and clear display and an 'N' speed modem. So... yeah, for the price it's a good portable PC. It just has that annoying shiny clear-coat surface that attracts finger prints like flies! Not my favorite feature.
Yeah, anyway... Life can be so freaking weird sometimes. :P
I found out last night they are going to get a divorce. I've only heard his side of the story, but from his POV she met someone from Canada and is leaving her husband for this other guy. He says she's emotionally unstable and he's trying to keep the kids. The kids are with him now. Now they're marriage wasn't what I'd call the perfect relationship, but I'd thought they'd worked out all of those kinks years ago. It's turned slightly awkward since I made the Facebook friend invite to both of them before knowing any of this was going on. Right now I'm seriously considering contacting her and letting her know that while I know what's going on, I don't hold ill feelings toward her. I still care about both of them as friends.
I know and realize that marriage and other such relationships are very complex, and very often it's other stuff that leads to it's downfall. It's just so sad all the pain that happens with situations like this. It causes me to want to second-think any desire to be in a relationship myself. With so many people I've known who's marriages that have failed, there stands a really good argument of the benefits of being single.
On the other hand I suspect that if someone does come into my life I'll be willing to try it. Hey, after all, with a one in a million chance there still is a chance, right?
Other junk:
I do seem to remember I was going to give some sort of review of Windows 7. It's really simple. If you hate Vista and you have the money, then go for it. I've not had substantial issues with Vista to want to spend the money to upgrade. I liked it, but when I didn't use my notebook for a few days it wasn't like I really missed it.
The Acer notebook (I keep wanting to call it a laptop.) Is a pretty decent little machine for the just over $300 I spend on it. My last notebook PC was about $1200 and the only thing my older one exceeds it is in CPU speed an it's not by that much. It's nice to have a notebook with a fresh battery again, plus it runs a couple of applications I've wanted to use but the older one didn't. It's not a good one for gaming (Which I don't do, really) and it's certainly not a powerhouse, but it's a complete PC, as it has a full size keyboard with key-pad, DVD drive, a very bright and clear display and an 'N' speed modem. So... yeah, for the price it's a good portable PC. It just has that annoying shiny clear-coat surface that attracts finger prints like flies! Not my favorite feature.
Yeah, anyway... Life can be so freaking weird sometimes. :P