EX vs. XXX

I thought for the sake of my readers sanity, I would deviate the topic today ever so slightly from running to a somewhat more salacious subject, that of ex’s. As fate would have it, a few months ago I got the most mysterious sms from a person I do not know. It said that we should meet, woman to woman and talk. Suddenly finding myself in a very bad soap opera (sorely lacking in the retarded cousin and spiritual guide), I responded with my usual sweetness and asked “Who the frek are you and what do we need to talk about”. Long story short and I found myself drinking tequila with the ex’s ex. Yip, hell hath no furry like a woman scorned and I’ll tell you what... you don’t want to mess with this little piece of dynamite. So there I was talking to the woman who, not 2 weeks ago, hated my guts and had visions of stabbing me to death ala Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct. With a volume of new information acquired over the following 2 weeks and the ensuing break up, she felt the need to fully explain and talk to me about this man we both, clearly, had misunderstood.

Cue a 3 hour discussion, some highly enlightening and rather heart breaking realizations and we were kindred sprits. As apparently a number of other woman we needed to find would soon become. Yip, it would appear our supposed Mr Perfect turned out to be slightly less than perfect after all! Rather amusing for me and highly painful for my new found friend, we analyzed and over analyzed every inch of the past few years as only woman can do.

Since that fateful day when I aquired a new friend and sounding board, two realizations came to pass:

1) No matter what happens in life and love, woman will always be there for each other to wipe away the tears, call him nasty names and feed each other ice cream and pizza whenever the need arises. We will feel each others pain, laugh with each other in times of happiness and always hold each others hands when things seem a little to big.

2)  “A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one” - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

(3 DAYS TO GO!!!)