Happy Election Night
Posted: November 2nd, 2010 | Author: Molly Monet | Filed under: marriage, tips for a peaceful divorce | Tags: anniversary, election night, ex husband | 6 Comments »
I had forgotten what today was. I voted of course. My Facebook friends reminded me to do that (you’ve got to love the social media). No, I had forgotten something of arguably greater importance in my personal life until my ex texted me and said “Happy Election Night! xoxo”
He and I went out on our very first date on election night, 1994. I had just started graduate school but had been working previously on political campaigns in California so I was invested in the outcome. I had noticed that my ex had been the last person to leave my party on the prior Saturday night so I thought he might be interested in joining me to watch election returns. In addition, he was the only grad student I knew that I thought would actually take time off from studying on a Tuesday night.
Sure enough he accepted. We had beers at the Anchor in New Haven and then went back to my house and stayed up until the wee hours of the morning to hear the returns from the West Coast. It was a bad night to be a Democrat as Bill Clinton’s party lost their majority to Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America. But it was a good night to be me because I connected with the man that would be my husband and the father of my two beautiful children Jonah Gabriel and Layla Esperanza.
A girl never forgets her first true love. I am glad that, despite our differences, bitterness has not hardened our hearts and that we can fondly remember the beginning of something really big in our lives. Yes, divorce is disappointing, but it shouldn’t make us forget the love that once existed.
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Thank you for sharing this. Though my ex and I get along just fine, we still have issues to work past, even as friends.
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You sound like you are at a good place mentally and with your relationship. It gives hope to those of us that are so far from that place. Thx!
Thanks, gals. There are still moments of tension and conflict, but I am glad that there is also love and happy memories as well. I hope that you are both able to get to that spot even in some small way.
What a great story. Maybe someday my ex and I will be able to recall with fondness the day that we met.
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What a sweet text from your ex.
As for election night this week, yet another proof that history repeats itself. I just hope the next two years are not too painful, destructive and unproductive under Boehner’s watch. Too many people are getting squeezed.
He actually wrote a follow up message that was even sweeter but I kept it private. He has always been a romantic.
In terms of the elections, 2008 doesn’t seem as bad as 1994.