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Remember how I said my ex was getting married?

Well, the gossip grapevine connected this past week. I thought he was getting married in late September, but as it turns out, he got married in the summer (July). They apparently had a quiet wedding in Oregon, with just the two of them and each of their moms present.

What I find bizarre about this is the fact that Oregon was one of OUR favorite holiday destinations, one we went to at least 4 or 5 times during our relationship. I just don't understand how this woman is comfortable with:
a) living in the house he and I built together;
b) traveling in the campervan that my ex and I traveled in for nearly 10 years together before;
c) getting married in a place that was special to he and his first wife.

It also strikes me that it's almost like he was embarrassed that he was marrying her, so he went and did it far from home, without any of his brothers around (who he is VERY close to), without his grandmothers there, without his friends (well, the few he still stays in touch with).

I know, I shouldn't give two hoots about what he does, or who he does it with , at this point, 2.5 years after divorce. But, sadly, it still is a passing interest! (Kind of like reading about the stars marital woes in US or People magazine.)

On a positive note, I have a date next week with a nice guy I met online <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I decided to go back to online dating, after no dates in many, many months. I may have quite a few friends, but still can't seem to meet anyone single and somewhat near my age.

Jen:)


*33yr old FWS *exH is 34, no kids; in April 2005, he finally confessed that he too is a FWS. *We were married for 8 yrs, together for 12+ *D-day May 30, 2002; separated June 1, 2002 *I filed for Dv in Feb, 2004 (tired of waiting for him to choose me over OW) *Dv was final April 19th, 2004
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Yay on the date, you'll have to tell us all about it!

As for ex, who knows what he's thinking?


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Jen-
I live in Oregon. I didn't realize this was a State that people would actaully go to, to get married. That seems odd to me. sounds like your Ex was certainly trying to hide away.
When I picture the two of them, in YOUR camper van, I can't help but laugh! Just think, if she tries to put a pan in the "wrong" cupboard, he is likely to say something like "that doesn't go there, we put it over here" and she is forced to remember that this was originally YOUR camper van, taht you shared with YOUR husband!
It is really very sad when you think about it. He didn't do anything sepcial for her. He is totally trying to make her fit into your shoes, and frankly she just can't do it.

by the way - I met me new H online! EHarmony. And when we got married we went to Hawaii and got married some place where neither of us had ever been before. I would never have allowed him to take me off on a trip in a camper van that he shared with his first wife (he had been divorced for 8 years when we met so he didn't even have a vehicle that they had owned together) and I would have gotten married in any place he had taken his first wife to. I have no ill feelings towards her - and neither does he. But I wanted to start my new life with my new husband, building our own memories.

Your ex and his OW are kind of sick!


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D Day June 25, 2003
Divorced December 17, 2003

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Who cares who used to be in the camper van? It's her and him now. Ex wife is not there.


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