Bittersweet

The perfect couple! The most expensive wedding! A fully furnished apartment! And seven years of dating and courtship in bliss!

But after eleven difficult and torturous months of marriage she left her husband. When she finally made that decision she thought the worst was over. She stopped knowing him. They shocked each other by how swiftly they went from being the people who knew each other best in the world to being a pair of mutually incomprehensible strangers who ever lived.

At the abysmal fact that they both were bottom of strangeness was the fact tht they were both were doing something the other person would never have conceived possible: he never dreamed she would actually leave him, and she in her wildest imagination thought he would make it so difficult for her to go.

It was her belief that when she left her husband that that they could settle the practical matters in a few hours with a calculator, some common sense and a bit of goodwill towards the person they’d once loved. However, in few days she found that she was at a loss. How do you negotiate once you have offered everything? She could do nothing but wait for his counterproposal. Her guilt at having left him forbade her from thinking she should be allowed to keep even a dime of money she had made in the last decade. Not even any of her wedding or birthday gifts.

Time elapsed, without any word but silences were broken by his occasional communications reminding what a criminal jerk she was.

What was left of her was just her withered soul. She took her refuge from her nearest and closest friends: Mr. Loneliness and Ms. Depression!