Conversation

I just came back from picking Blaine up from work and taking him home.   I took a different route home, past the Jamestown Business Center. 

As we drove past, Blaine leans over and says "That's your old apartment."   I said, "Yep".  

He goes on to say "He wasn't very nice to you." 

Me: "John?"

Blaine:  "Yep.  He wasn't very nice to you."

Me:  "You didn't like John."

Blaine:  "Nope.   I didn't.  I wouldn't come around until he was gone."

Me:  "You remember John?"

Blaine:  "Yep.  Grandpa and Dad didn't like him."

Me:  "They were right....so were you...he wasn't a very nice man"

Blaine:  "I won't let anyone hurt you like that again"

Me:  "Thank you Blaine, that means the world to me"


Blaine was very, very young when I was married to John.   I do not know if his conversation tonight was a result of his own feelings, or the feelings or conversations he heard between Terry and my Dad.   But for him to spontaneously bring this up in conversation was a bit unnerving to me.

I haven't thought of John in a while.   But now that his name was brought up, my thoughts turn to him and our marriage, brief that it was.   

You're right Blaine...he wasn't a nice man.  




Comments

Rob said…
We all remember unpleasant things, events, people from our past. The important thing is (hopefully) that in time we get over them and move on with our lives so that they no longer have any control over us. Life's too short to sweat the small stuff because in life everything is just that, small stuff ...
October 30, 2017 at 8:02 AM
Sherry said…
Rob,

It was very long time ago and I've truly moved past it and that time. It was the suddenness of the conversation that startled me. Blaine, my nephew, is a very intuitive man...and apparently he was back then too. I believe everything happens for a reason - events, and yes - conversations - so I wonder what the reason was for that particular conversation. I am fine, and have compartmentalized it and moved forward...now, as I did then. :)
October 30, 2017 at 1:29 PM
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