It's been a while. I have missed writing here, but I haven't really had anything to say, well, nothing nice or productive or appropriate to say, so I haven't written anything. I feel horrible. Awful, dreadful, dismal, depressed, dark, moody, mopey. All of that times a million. I am unhappy, alone, and I feel abandoned.
I lost a friend earlier this month. She and I will no longer speak, for a number of reasons which include stubborness and lack of sympathy and empathy. I don't think I'm right, but I'm definitely not wrong, and I'm not saying she's wrong, but she's definitely not right. So the it is what it is, and despite the fact that we've known each other since high school, and she was in my wedding we aren't friends. She went so far as to delete and block me on facebook. Done. I'm over it, mostly. The thing is, this, we still have mutual friends. We still have friends that started as my friends, but became her friends, which was fully awesome when we all did stuff together. Now, that isn't an option.
This has never happened to me before. I don't know what to do. I would never in a million years ask our friends to do. It's ridiculous, and selfish and petty. I won't do it. However, I struggle knowing that now there is part of a good friend's life that I'm shut out of permanently, and they have this thing together that no longer includes me. I'm not sure what to do or what to say, because I don't know what they think or say or what their opinion is about the whole situation. I don't trust people as a rule. I doubt everything everyone says, I doubt their true motives, and I don't fully trust anyone. I don't, so as long as they stay friends, I don't think I can ever be sure that our friend hasn't secretly taken sides. So someone I love that would normally be able to talk Pots and Pans Niki into a corner is currently unavailable to me.
And at the time all this is going on, I don't feel like Duffy is there either. His belief is that if he can't give me a solution to my problem, then he should leave me alone to figure it out. He'll listen to me if I talk, but he will give me no feedback at all. He mostly doesn't talk to me at all, at all. Unless we are discussing our plans for dinner or how our day was, there is no conversation between us, and he doesn't make any attempt, so I assume that he's perfectly fine having this marriage with no affection or closeness which makes me feel even worse and withdraw even more. I think he'd be perfectly fine if I just faked being happy for the rest of my life. But I've passed the point where I have the energy or desire to put on my public Niki face.
So here I am. My house is company clean, all the time, but I don't have any company coming. My phone is charged, but only work calls me. I have made arrangements for the girls to go away for a weekend soon, but I have no plans. I don't know who to trust. I don't know what to do with all this crap. Spring clean-up for Waste Managment was in May, so I guess it's here for a while.
I lost a friend earlier this month. She and I will no longer speak, for a number of reasons which include stubborness and lack of sympathy and empathy. I don't think I'm right, but I'm definitely not wrong, and I'm not saying she's wrong, but she's definitely not right. So the it is what it is, and despite the fact that we've known each other since high school, and she was in my wedding we aren't friends. She went so far as to delete and block me on facebook. Done. I'm over it, mostly. The thing is, this, we still have mutual friends. We still have friends that started as my friends, but became her friends, which was fully awesome when we all did stuff together. Now, that isn't an option.
This has never happened to me before. I don't know what to do. I would never in a million years ask our friends to do. It's ridiculous, and selfish and petty. I won't do it. However, I struggle knowing that now there is part of a good friend's life that I'm shut out of permanently, and they have this thing together that no longer includes me. I'm not sure what to do or what to say, because I don't know what they think or say or what their opinion is about the whole situation. I don't trust people as a rule. I doubt everything everyone says, I doubt their true motives, and I don't fully trust anyone. I don't, so as long as they stay friends, I don't think I can ever be sure that our friend hasn't secretly taken sides. So someone I love that would normally be able to talk Pots and Pans Niki into a corner is currently unavailable to me.
And at the time all this is going on, I don't feel like Duffy is there either. His belief is that if he can't give me a solution to my problem, then he should leave me alone to figure it out. He'll listen to me if I talk, but he will give me no feedback at all. He mostly doesn't talk to me at all, at all. Unless we are discussing our plans for dinner or how our day was, there is no conversation between us, and he doesn't make any attempt, so I assume that he's perfectly fine having this marriage with no affection or closeness which makes me feel even worse and withdraw even more. I think he'd be perfectly fine if I just faked being happy for the rest of my life. But I've passed the point where I have the energy or desire to put on my public Niki face.
So here I am. My house is company clean, all the time, but I don't have any company coming. My phone is charged, but only work calls me. I have made arrangements for the girls to go away for a weekend soon, but I have no plans. I don't know who to trust. I don't know what to do with all this crap. Spring clean-up for Waste Managment was in May, so I guess it's here for a while.
I can never begin to know the sadness, agony, depression, helplessness, dread, heartache that you and Duffy have experienced this past year. I watched amazed sometimes as you went through waves of emotions that sometimes tore at my heart because I had nothing in my "mommy" arsenal to stop, save, derail it from you and in those moments it is a bond that all mothers share when it comes to our children. You would not be a good mom, Duffy a great dad if it did not effect you. There will continue to be good days, bad days and even worse days and only time will manage the intensity of those feelings for they will never leave you, only soften with time which DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU LOVE HER LESS OR THAT YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN HER, only that your inner soul has come to peace with the event.
ReplyDeleteI do not know what event occured that created a rift between friends or what words were said that made it "boil" but take it from some one that let friendships go... friendships are the glue that sometimes holds us together when everything else fails. You will not always be able to be everything to everyone nor will they. Accept everyone for who they are, love them for what they are and mean to you and accept the difficult fact that life is nothing we can control, just enjoy.
You love your husband, I know he loves you... take the first step, surprise him with his favorite meal, no kids and do something that you haven't done but used to do together. I love you and you are a good mom and a great wife!!! call me at night I will listen !!!! love M
I am here, anytime any place! Love you!
ReplyDeleteKerri