157 years after the infamous Civil War battle that took place on the grounds of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a man who was passing through the home of the bloodiest battle spotted a strange sighting.
Gettysburg remains one of the most visited places in the United States. The Civil War Trust and the National Park Service preserved most of the terrain on which the battle took place. However, there are still parcels they need to preserve. This is of essential importance for historians who still learn details of the bloody battle.
The battle marked the final invasion of the North of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, where Union troops forced his retreat.
On November 19, 1963, Abraham Lincoln delivered the famous speech known as The Gettysburg Address.
“Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.”
“But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — we cannot consecrate — we cannot hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced,” Lincoln said in his speech.
“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Being a bloody field, people have shared stories related to Gettysburg throughout the years. The one that emerged in 2020, left many speechless.
New Jersey resident Greg Yuelling captured a video of what appears to be two ghosts.
Many agree that the place does have ghosts and witness seeing some.
Below is the video. Take a look at it and tell us what you think.
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Noah was the perfect boyfriend, except for one thing I hated about our relationship; he seemed to hide me from his friends and family.
During the whole year we’ve been together, Noah always found excuses for not taking any photos with me, let alone sharing them on the social media. However, he would post a photo of himself every now and then from places and events when I was just there beside him.
I felt like he was cutting me from his life, photo by photo, piece by piece.
Other than that, he was the most caring and most handsome man I have ever met, so despite not meeting his parents or any of his friends for that long, I still felt like he was worth staying with.
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One evening, during a dinner at a fancy Italian restaurant, I asked for a selfie, but my boyfriend’s answer was the same as always, “Please, Deb, I don’t look good on photos.”
At that moment, I snapped. I just couldn’t control the words that started coming out of my mouth.
It’s been a while that thoughts about him having another woman in his life haunted me, but I never spoke that up until that evening.
“What’s wrong, Noah?” I asked him, struggling to stop tears from rolling down my face. “Don’t you think I’m worth meeting your family?” I continued. “You’ve met my parents and they love you very much. My little sis sends you cat memes and my grandma always asks about you. You know all my friends, even my former roommates…”
He tied to shush me as people started staring at us, but I didn’t care. I had it enough of not getting the respect I deserved.
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My boyfriend wanted to convince me that I was imagining things, so I finally let it go, but only for the night.
Over the weekend, my boyfriend mentioned dinner with his family. “Is that one of those dinners I’m never invited to?” I asked him.
“It’s nothing special,” Noah said as he continued stirring his coffee. He then glanced at his phone and said, “I have a meeting in 20, see you tomorrow.”
But, I had a plan.
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Noah never turned off the location on his phone, so I decided to track him down and join the dinner without being invited.
As I drove to the location, my friend’s words echoed in my head. “Deb, if he refuses to take any pictures with you, he has secrets,” and I was determined to expose Noah’s secret that evening.
When I arrived at the place, I was totally confused. Noah told me he was living in a small house, and what I saw in front of me was the biggest mansion ever; like the ones you only see on TV and not in real life.
With a bouquet and a box of chocolates that I could barely hold because my hands were trembling, I rang the doorbell not knowing what to expect.
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The door was opened by a butler. “Oh, my God,” I thought to myself. “Where am I? What is going on?”
He asked me who I was looking for and I said I needed to see Noah. The butler invited me in. While I stood at the hall, I could see Noah at the huge table full of various meals and two people, likely his mom and dad, dressed as though they were attending a ball.
The moment my boyfriend saw me, he spilled the wine on the fancy tablecloth.
Before I was given a chance to introduce myself, he stood up, grabbed me by my hand, and took me to another room.
“Oh, deb, what do you think you are doing?” he asked, nervousness showing all over his face.
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“Noah, you said you lived in a small house, what is going on.”
It was then that Noah told me the truth. He was the grandson of the wealthiest and most powerful person in town. His family owned the chain of jewelry shops. They also owned most of the building in the town.
According to Noah, his mom and dad were always harsh to his girlfriends, and this time, he didn’t want them to ruin our relationship because he cared deeply about me and what we had.
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He also said that whenever someone would hear his last name, they would either ask something from him or they would run away, but he believed I was different.
“Noah, give me a chance. Stand by my side when I enter that huge living room.”
Noah agreed. We both entered the room where his parents were and he told them I was his girlfriend.
My heart raced, but then his mom gave me a hug and said, “You know what young lady? When I look at you it is as though I see myself 30 years ago. I was this brave when I fought for my love.”
I was stunned. My boyfriend was too.
Hid dad then turned to Noah’s mom and said laughingly, “But this lady came through the door, and as I remember, you jumped over the garden’s wall when you met my parents for the first time.”
The awkwardness was broken. We all laughed and Noah’s parents were happy to have me as their guest.
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I have always known my grandson was different, even before doctors said so. In my eyes, he wasn’t broken, just different. Danny, my most special boy, didn’t speak until he was five, and when he finally uttered his first words, they shook us to the core.
The room was silent as usual. My daughter was in the kitchen, trying to cut the cake. Albert, my son-in-law was in the corner of the room with his phone in his hand, working as always, and Danny, he was in his own little world. It felt like he was trapped inside, but he was always really calm and it seemed he like it.
While having my tea and looking at how Danny went with his tiny fingers through the patterns of the carpet, he suddenly stood up and did something he had never done before; he made eye contact with me. You see, Danny never looked anyone in the eyes, so this was rather shocking for me, his grandma who lived to see him thrive.
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Still overwhelmed from the feeling of his sweet brown eyes meeting mine, he uttered his first ever words.
“Grandma,” he said, “there is something I want to tell you.”
It felt as if the world had stopped spinning. All heads turned to Danny. My daughter, Louise, dropped the knife on the kitchen floor but was too shocked to be able to pick it up. Albert finally left his phone.
“What is it sweetheart? What do you want to tell me?” I asked him calmly, although my heart was racing and my hands were trembling.
“Mommy has a secret,” Danny said.
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Louise, whose face turned even paler than before, made a move. “Danny, honey,” she said, “go play with your toys.”
But now that Danny finally spoke, he didn’t plan on stopping.
“She told the man on the phone that she doesn’t love daddy and that something is wrong with me,” Danny said. His words felt like a sharp knife and he stood as still as ever, unaware of the chaos he caused.
“She wants to run away,” Danny said before he went back to playing with the carpet.
His words were more than any of us could handle at that moment.
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Albert looked at Louise and she crashed. “Is that true?” he asked. Sobbing, Louise tried to reach his hand put he pulled it away. “It’s not like it sounds, honey,” she tried to explain.
“Did you really tell someone that something’s wrong with our son? Is that what you think of your own child?”
Louise, broken, confessed she said those words because she felt like she failed like a mother. Danny never said a word to her, he never looked her in the eyes, she was feeling guilty of not doing more for him.
But Albert didn’t want to listen or accept her excuses.
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While the two argued, I asked if I could take Danny upstairs, and Albert allowed me. The boy had a smile on his face, not knowing that he threw a bomb and shattered the family apart.
In the days that followed, Albert filed for divorce.
My daughter seemed to be relieved with the outcome. She told me she never really wanted to be a mother, she only gave birth to a child because it was what Albert wanted. “I don’t know how to be a mother,” she told me. “I love Danny, I really do, and I’ve tried… but I just don’t feel it.”
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Her words were heavy. No matter how much I tried, I couldn’t forgive her for speaking of her own son like that, not then, not ever.
Eventually, she left her family, and Danny stayed with his father. I remained part of their life.
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My life resembles a fairytale. I have a loving husband and a sweet daughter who recently turned one. Working from home, I had plenty of time to spend with Lucy, but recently, my boss offered me to take a business trip and I was happy to accept. The problem was that we needed to hire a nanny.
My husband, Kevin, has always been very supportive of my career, so when the opportunity to take that business trip arose, he encouraged me to go. I hesitated at first because saying yes meant I needed to be away from home for a whole month.
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Eventually, Kevin and I decided to hire a nanny to help him with Lucy while I was away so we started going through a number of nanny applications.
After setting up interviews, we invited some of the candidates over because we wanted to see how Lucy would react around them, and eventually, the choice came down to two candidates, 48-year-old experienced woman named Amanda, and 22-year-old medical student Sarah.
I wanted to hire Amanda because of her years of experience as a nanny, but Lucy didn’t react to her as positively as she did with Sarah.
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Kevin insisted we hire Sarah, but I was hesitant. She was too young and too attractive, but since Kevin insisted, I eventually agreed.
However, still doubtful about our choice, I decided to install cameras around the house the night before my business trip.
I checked the surveillance footage every now and then, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
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One night, however, after working hard all day, I decided to check on Lucy before I went to sleep.
“What the hell is going on?” I yelled. I saw Lucy lying on the floor, Sarah next to her, and my husband lying on the bed and crying incontrolably.
I was quick to call Kevin on the phone, but he didn’t answer.
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Around half-an-hour later, Kevin called me, still crying. “Hun, Lucy had an episode and I froze. I was unable to help her because I had a panic attack. Had it not been for Sarah we could have lost Lucy,” he said, sobbing.
As I tried to process his words, I asked about Lucy and he assured me she was now fine.
He explained that Lucy didn’t feel good the whole day so he asked Sarah to spend the night with her, and she agreed.
I booked tickets home and returned two days later.
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When I took Lucy in my embrace, I was glad I listened to my husband when he insisted on Sarah being our girl’s babysitter.
I apologized for ever doubting his choice.
Realizing how much Sarah cared for Lucy, we decided to offer her a permanent job as a nanny, and she was happy to accept it.
This way, we knew Lucy was in safe hands and Kevin and I had more time for ourselves.
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During the last couple of years of my life have been a constant struggle to balance between my job and my home. Being a project manager at a huge bank put a lot of pressure on me, and at home, I didn’t receive any help from my husband, who barely moved from the sofa when he wasn’t at work.
That day, I stayed at the office late. All I could think of was getting a shower and going to bed, but the moment I opened the door, I hear my husband, Aiden, yell, “Where have you been so far? I’m starving, make me something to eat.”
This wasn’t the first time my husband had acted so demanding.
I went to the kitchen and opened the fridge, but there wasn’t much food so I told Aiden we should buy some.
“So, go to the store. I’ll wait here,” he said without even looking at me.
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I grabbed the wallet and went to the store. Being tired as I was, I could barely walk around the aisles. I thought about the way Aiden treated me. Honestly, I couldn’t remember when was the last time he was nice to me. I wondered if he ever was. Was I so in love with him that I let him treat me with such disrespect? I didn’t know what to think. What I knew was that I was starting to become tired of the life I had.
I returned home and prepared dinner. My husband ate and didn’t even bother to wash his own plate.
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The following morning, I felt sick. My throat was sore and I could barely move.
Instead of “good morning,” Aiden greeted me with the words, “You overslept, now I need to go to work without having breakfast.” He then slammed the door behind him.
I felt dizzy so I called in sick, had a cup of tea with some lemon and returned to bed.
No long after I heard the front door open. “Get out, I think she’s home…” I heard Aiden whispering, “It won’t work today.”
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A woman’s voice then asked about their next meeting to what my husband replied, “Hush, she’s asleep, you are going to wake her up. I’m gonna give you a call later, now go,” he said.
As I heard the woman’s steps getting out of the house, Aiden’s followed.
I forced myself to get out of bed. Without giving it a second thought, I started packing my husband’s belongings inside of a bunch of boxes.
I then changed the locks of the apartment that belonged to me and waited to see Aiden’s face when he returned home.
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As expected, he struggled to open the door and wondered why his keys didn’t work. I let him get inside, but the sight left him in shock.
“What’s all this?” he asked. I told him I heard him with that other woman in the morning. I was filing for divorce because I had it enough of being treated as someone not worth any love and attention. The time when Aiden treated me like his maid and cook ended at that moment.
He was furious and started threatening me, but I wasn’t afraid of him. His words meant nothing to me. I finally found my peace and learned to respect myself enough not to be with someone like Aiden.
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Life hasn’t been easy since my husband’s passing. My son, Mike, became withdrawn and didn’t talk to anyone, so I thought moving towns and enrolling him to a new school would help him with his grief.
Days went by and nothing seemed to change, until one day he hopped inside the car with a smile on his face and said, “Mom, I made a new friend. She’s the best person I’ve ever met.”
My face beamed with joy. It was finally happening. My son has finally found someone he was comfortable with.
I didn’t ask many questions, I was just happy for him forming social connections.
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One day, he came home and handed me a piece of paper. The phone number of his friend’s mom was written on it. “Mom Sophie invited me to her place tomorrow. This is her mom’s number. Please, say yes,” he said with excitement.
Later that day, I texted Sophie’s mom just to make sure she was fine with the playdate our children had organized. “We’d be happy to have Mike over,” Sophie’s mom texted back.
I offered to bring some wine, and she said it was a great idea.
The following day, we headed to Sophie’s place and I was finally going to meet her and her mom.
However, the moment the door opened and I heard a familiar voice, I felt defeated. It was Alice, the woman who made my high-school years a living hell.
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The moment I looked her in the eyes, all the teasing, bullying, and harsh words she has ever said to me came back. I felt the same pain I did when I was a teenager.
With a cold expressions on her face, she said, “Lisa, you haven’t changed,” and laughed at my face.
I hesitated whether I should enter her home, but my son was already inside and his and Sophie’s laughter filled the air.
Alice and I barely said a word to each other. I remembered the time when she stole my prom date and laughed at my face, just like she did when she saw me at her door.
I didn’t want to have anything with that woman, but my son and her daughter made best friends, so there wasn’t much I could do.
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While Mike and Sophie continued hanging out both at school and out, Alice and I didn’t have any contact. But that changed when the school principal call me and told me I needed to go to the school.
Unaware of what was going on, I entered Mrs. Terry’s office and saw Alice there.
She accused my son of bullying her daughter. And although I knew she was making things up, I was unable to convince Mrs. Terry that Alice was lying.
Not only she put my son in trouble, but she also accused me of being a bad mother who didn’t take good care of my son.
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Alice’s bullying continued. But we weren’t teenagers any longer and I wouldn’t let her hurt my son the way she hurt me years ago.
I spoke to Mike and told him to stay away from Sophie. I knew the girl was a great person, but her mom forced her to lie, and I didn’t want Mike to be friends with her any longer.
One day, as I was getting ready for work, someone knocked on my door. It was Alice, but this time, she looked like the one who was defeated.
“Why are you here, Alice? To throw more accusations at me? What’s your problem?” I asked as I tried to close the door at her face. But she grabbed me by my hand and said she was there to apologize.
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I was stunned at her words. “What changed?” I asked.
Alice explained that Sophie was extremely sad because she couldn’t play with Mike any longer. She cried every day and begged her mother to let her be friends with Mike again.
Mike was also said. He missed Sophie dearly, and I believed our children shouldn’t have suffered because of Alice and my unresolved issues.
I invited her inside and we had a long conversation. She said that she bullied me because she was jealous of me. I was part of a lovely family while hers was dysfunctional.
“And what about now, Alice?” I asked. “I’m a single mom struggling to provide a decent life for my son. What’s to be jealous about now?”
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Alice shared that she married Luke, the date she stole from me at the prom, but he wasn’t a good husband and father. In fact, she spent a few awful years with him before she gathered the courage to leave him and run away with Sophie.
“And you, although your husband is dead, at least he loved you,” Alice said.
I understood she was facing her own issues, so I decided to forgive her for the sake of our children. We, however, never became friends.
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Melania Trump, the wife of business mogul and former President of the United States, Donald Trump, first came to America to work as a model. Her beauty opened the doors to the fashion industry for her, and she was very successful at what she did.
It was back in 1987 when young Melania decided to drop out of the University of Ljubljana and focus on modeling instead. It took her only a year to get a contract with a modeling agency in Milan.
When she met famous Italian businessman Paolo Zampolli, he helped her get a work visa to the U.S.
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Back then, she planned on living in the States but had to travel back home several times to renew her visa.
“I came here for my career, and I did so well, I moved here,” Melania told Harper’s Bazaar. “It never crossed my mind to stay here without papers. That is just the person you are. You follow the rules. You follow the law. Every few months you need to fly back to Europe and stamp your visa.
“After a few visas, I applied for a green card and got it in 2001. After the green card, I applied for citizenship. And it was a long process.”
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At a Kit Kat Club event during the New York Fashion Week in 1998, Zampolli brought a friend, Donald Trump. He was with a date that night, but when he saw Melania, he immediately wanted to know more about her.
One of Melania’s friends, Edit Molnar, spoke of that night and explained that Donald asked Melania for her number, but she didn’t give it to him because he wasn’t alone. “Melania said, ‘He’s here with a woman. I am absolutely not giving him my number,’” Molnar told New York Post. “She wouldn’t even consider it. Donald did all the work.”
Melania also spoke of the night she first met Donald Trump. “He wanted my number,” she told Tatler. “But he was on a date, so of course I didn’t give it to him. I said, ‘I am not giving you my number; give me yours and I will call you.’ If I give him my number, I’m just one of the women he calls.”
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After they met again, one thing led to another and the two started a relationship. In 2001, at the time Melania got her green card, she was already living at Trump Tower.
They tied the knot some three years later, and in 2006, they welcomed their son Baron Trump.
Melania Trump did end her career as a model, but she never stopped working, regardless of her husband’s enormous wealth.
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She has been involved in the fashion industry, more precisely jewelry. She never stopped creating pieces, not even during the time she lived in the White House as a First Lady.
The former model launched her Melania Timepieces and Jewelry collection, for sale on QVC, in 2010. Each of the pieces she created seems to represent her personal aesthetics and fashion style. Melania also marketed a skin care collection at high-end department stores.
It has been reported that according to the White House financial disclosure filing in May 2016, the former First Lady’s company, Melania Marks Accessories Member Corporation, made between $15,000 and $50,000 in royalties per year.
According to Yahoo, her net worth is around $50 million.
However, besides her business, Melania is also involved in a number of charities, including Be Best program, which she launched in 2018. It aims at promoting physical and emotional wellbeing among children.
“Social media can both positively and negatively affect our children. But too often, it is used in negative ways,” she said at the time of the Be Best launch. “When children learn positive online behaviors early on, social media can be used in productive ways.
“I do believe that children should be both seen and heard, and it is our responsibility as adults to educate and remind them that when they are using their voices – whether verbally or online – they must choose their words wisely and speak with respect and compassion.”
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Other causes she supports are the Martha Graham Dance Company, The American Red Cross, Love Our Children USA, and the Police Athletic League.
People close to the Trump family claimed Melania wasn’t happy with her husband’s plan to run for president in 2024. Apparently, she didn’t want to return to the White House and believed that political work for the Republican Party is not her job, but her husband’s.
“Being First Lady again is not what she wants,” source told CNN. “For her, it was a chapter — and it’s over, and that’s that.”
However, as we all know, Trump won the elections and will be serving as the President of the United States for four more years, and Melania is supportive of his venture.
In fact, what Melania is best known for is her dedication to her son Barron.
From the moment he was born, she was the one taking care of him, no nannies and no particular help from her husband who was busy doing business.
Over the years, she has been very protective of her son whom she tried to keep out of the spotlight. Barron, just like his mother, tends to keep his life private as much as possible.
When she appeared on Fox News in October, Melania said that as a mother, you should “lead with love and take a child as individual. She added that you should “be cautious and be very loving,” and that speaks volumes of her efforts as a mom.
Speaking of what Barron was like as a child, Melania spoke to Parenting, as quoted by Metro, and said: “In his space, the décor style of the rest of our home is mixed with what he is into: planes and helicopters.
“We let him be creative; let his imagination fly and do whatever he wants. Whatever he wants to do with his own room later on, he can do it. Whatever he wants to do with his own room he can do it. He draws on the walls, we can paint it over.
“When he was smaller, he started drawing on the walls,” she added. “His imagination is growing and important. He draws on the walls in his playroom, we can paint it over. One day he was playing bakery and he wrote ‘Barron’s Bakery’ on the wall with crayons. He is very creative, if you say to a child ‘no, no, no,’ where does the creativity go?”
Like her or hate her, Melania Trump has done an extraordinary job raising her son in a public environment.
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As I was making lasagna, I thought it would be nice if I brought some to my husband Johnathan at his workplace. He loved lasagna and garlic bread, and he was working late hours for a couple of weeks so I believed he would appreciate the gesture.
I took a taxi, and once I was in front of the company’s building, I asked the security guard about my husband. He looked at me awkwardly and then told me that he was axed three weeks ago. It was around the same time he claimed he needed to stay at the office late because he was aiming at a promotion.
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I didn’t confront him right away. Before I talked to him about him lying to my face, I first wanted to try and learn what was going on myself.
The following morning he got up and got ready for “work” as usual. I gave him a kiss, as I did every morning, and asked him about the promotion. “Still working on it,” he replied while looking at his phone.
I waited for him to get out of the house before I took a taxi and followed after him. On the way to the bar where he parked his car, he picked up some women I had never seen before.
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When I entered the bar myself, I saw Johnathan with the women and before I had the chance to approach them, one of the women stood up and left the bar. I followed her outside and asked her how she knew Johnathan, to what she replied, “That jerk? He doesn’t appreciate real talent. Good luck to him.”
What the hell was going on?
When my husband came home that evening, I had to ask him about his job and all those women he was with that day.
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“How do you know I was at a bar? Did you follow me?!” he yelled. I said I had because I learned he had lost his job but claimed he was still working.
That’s when my husband told me he quit his job himself because he wanted to focus on his life dream, that of becoming a director of a play. The women were some so-called actresses who wanted part in his play.
This was all very confusing. “But where did you get the money for a play?” I asked him. That’s when I received yet another blow from my husband, the man I trusted the most until that moment.
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He said he used our savings, the $50,000 that we had on our shared bank account. The worst thing of all was that he had already spent that money and his play was still in the making. Who knew how much more he needed to spend, and I was angered by his action.
I tried to convince my husband to quit the idea of becoming a director, but he didn’t listen.
Things became heated between us and I eventually filed for divorce. I got custody of the kids and Johnathan moved out of the house.
After a couple of months, I got a call from Johnathan. He said his play would be performed the following week and I was invited.
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Honestly, I hesitated whether to go or not, but my kids convinced me to attend it and show my support. Sadly, the play was bad. The theater was half-empty. I felt sorry for my ex husband, but it was what he chose and now he needed to face the consequences all by himself.
We didn’t stay in touch. He only contacted with the children, but one day, he called me and asked me to have coffee with him, promising we would only speak about our kids. I wanted him to understand that “we” no longer existed.
When we met, Johnathan told me he got a job offer in finances. I said I was happy for him. But if he accepted it, it meant he needed to move to Chicago, which was quite far from where the children and I lived.
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However, I promised we would be making adjustments and visiting schedules so that he can continue see the kids whenever possible.
He did take the job, and I moved on with my life and finally took that trip to Europe I always dreamed of.
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