How I Fell in Love With a Stranger (and ended up married 7 months later) Part III
1:55 pm ~
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Where was I?

So B and I got into Dallas and tried to get into our apartment and they had made a mistake and the apartment wouldn’t be ready for another week.

So. They were able to get us into a different apartment at the last minute, but we still had to stay in a hotel for a couple days. I was so sick of staying in creepy cheap motels but at least now we were in a big city with decent hotels.

The next 5 and a half months weren’t really much to talk about. We moved into our apartment and B went to school every day while I stayed home. When he wasn’t in school he was sitting on the couch playing football on Xbox or watching football on TV. In October I went to Vegas with my Aunt for my 21st birthday. He stayed home playing Xbox and watching football, ignoring our dog I always watched after and let him piss all over the carpet which in the end I had to pay to replace.

In most ways it was a pretty uneventful 5 and a half months. But in some ways it was the most important 5 and a half months of my life. When I was left at home alone all day and put 2nd (and 3rd) to football and the Xbox, I had a lot of time to think about what the hell I was doing with my life. Don’t get me wrong, B is a great guy. (Was? He’s changed a lot recently… ) We had a lot of fun together but when you got right down to it, we had zero in common. It was depressing to think that this was all that it was going to be for me. I couldn’t shake the fact that I wanted a family and all B wanted out of life was a truck and a boat.

So now we’re at December 2005. The first Christmas I would be spending away from my family. It was a hard month for me because I missed my family and friends so much. We did go back to WA that Christmas, but we went to visit B’s family, not mine. (His family is great, I’ve remained friends with his sister, she’s such a sweet heart.) So it was a hard time for me and if B had showed any amount of care for my feelings during that time, things may have actually ended up differently. On December 23rd we were in WA and we went out with all our friends who we hadn’t seen since we moved. To make a very long and dramatic story short, I had quite a bit too much to drink that night. You can picture it I’m sure… depressed girl in a bar the day before Christmas Eve drinking away her sadness. LOL! So after drinking way too much, I was extremely sick on Christmas Eve.

You would think that any loving and caring boyfriend of 5 years would be willing to take care of his sick girlfriend on Christmas Eve, especially since she was so sad and depressed and missing her family at Christmas. But…. B had tickets to the Seahawks game. In fact not only did B have tickets to the Seahawks game, his entire family had tickets to the Seahawks game… except me. They knew I didn’t like football, so they just didn’t get me a ticket. What on earth they figured I would do on Christmas Eve all by myself, I have no idea.

So I begged B not to go and to stay home with me because I was so sick I couldn’t even walk, literally. And do you think he stayed with me or went to the Seahawks football game?

To be continued…

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