The Aftermath Following the Update

The days following a breakup are the worst! Where did I go wrong? What could I have done differently? How could I be so dumb? And to make matters worse, Candace is away visiting her parents and returns mid-week. I have to move past this. 

I pick up Candace at the airport and during the drive, we find out our used car consultant has found a car for us to purchase for our daughter. We are super excited because 1) We didn't have to negotiate anything and 2) when we show up, it's to look over the car, pay for it, sign some documents and drive off with it. 

We complete the workday and head to the dealership. It's a 10 yr old Mazda 3 with less than 40k miles! It's a beautiful car and very little is wrong with it. While we are signing the paperwork, I get a text from my ex partner. The person she'd decided to become monogamous with, had just broke up with her 💔

As much as I wanted to support her, I was busy and really couldn't. Yet, for as much heartache and pain she gave me the week before, I wanted to support her. And I hated the fact that I wanted to support given how she made me feel the week before. 

I agree to chat with her on my drive home. But it's tricky because I'm driving my daughters car, that has no bluetooth-enabled anything to talk hands free. So I had the phone on speaker while driving. Needless to say, she'd asked her partner if being in an exclusive relationship was absolutely what she wanted, to which she replied multiple times "ayes, this is what I want also". Which is what precipitated the decision to break up with me. And literally 6 days later, her now exclusive, monogamous partner breaks up with her. I swear, karma has an interesting since of humor 🫠