mortensorchid Posted December 31, 2009 Posted December 31, 2009 There has been a lot of talk about bad boys and good girls and nice guys and bad girls, and everything in between. It's funny once I realized this to be true that things really never change no matter what generation you come from. This is a story about a former friend of my Mom's. She is in her 60s, and has been in a miserable, abusive, humiliating marriage for the last 40 years. No really. When she met her husband in high school, she invited him to her graduation party. He showed up drunk to the party, in front of her parents and extended family and friends. She not only continued to date him, supplying with other information that while they were dating he on more than one occasion was pressuring her into sex and alcohol (perhaps drugs as well, even though in those days they had not yet trickled down to suburban America), and how she just giggled and said no. She not only continued to date this man, she MARRIED him. It is now 40 some years later. The man she married is perhaps the most miserable human being I have ever encountered. His "bad boy" ways did not stop once she married the man, but escalated into hitting her. He left her, moved away to Florida about twenty years ago, leaving her with her two equally miserable children. She maintains that he will never divorce her (as he is notoriously cheap), but I wouldn't put it past him that he has probably stolen sizable sums of money from her as well as others over the years. As much as she complains about him, she is hanging onto him with bloody fingernails because "she loves him". Sounds like a gal who digs bad boys, huh? Some things never change.
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