By Luna (aka Terri Giosia)
Maria put the coffee on for Carlo as Angelina walked into the kitchen. She was a vision in jeans and a loose sweater than buttoned all the way to her throat, but her figure could not be hidden and he thought again to their wedding night.
In that same instance he got a whiff of his lovers perfume and he pictured her in the motel, lying on the bed, smoking and sipping a glass of wine and he thought how much he enjoyed talking to her, her laughter, how she understood that he didn’t like talking right away, as she rubbed his shoulders and he unwound.
Would Angelina do this? She had no clue about his little habits nor did she seem very interested in his business….ah she’ll learn, he thought.
And with that thought, most marriages begin and end.
For only when Carlo and Angelina are married, living and learning about each other will he realize that she doesn’t care about his business nor does he care about her love of music and her desire to learn to play the piano. He’ll put it down like he does everything she wishes to do. And this will build into resentment on her part and she will pull further and further away and never care about his business nor will she care when he starts coming home later as she will have started her own extra curricular activities with her piano teacher.
And this will go on, and on….. After the children come her desire for sex with him will diminish and become a “duty” maybe once a month or on holidays and he won’t care as many lovers will come and go in his life.
Angelina will be a devoted mother, a great cook and maid basically to her husband and just before turning 40, will have the desire to learn another instrument or perhaps learn to play tennis….and her desires will be again fulfilled by her teacher.
How many people live this way? Too many, for they don’t get divorced nor do they even confront each other, as it’s become too easy to fall into some pattern and for a lot of people they prefer not to change the pattern, habits become a part of their life, and God forbid a divorce would make people talk.
And so they go on, living, loving others, lying, cheating, stealing moments, and lying next to a stranger “until death do us part”.
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