I was traveling from Tampa to Traverse City Mich, Christmas eve, to be with my new girlfriend. A gal I met a few months earlier at a 40th HS reunion.
I was in the Detroit airport, waiting my Traverse City connection. Christmas music playing, I was home sick and missing my X.
I boarded the plane for TC, they pulled the gang plank and revved the engine. I couldn't take it. I unbuckled my seat belt got up from my seat, and asked to get off the plane. They put up the gang plank, I exited the plane and watched it leave for TC.
I was stuck in Detroit. Now I had to call the girlfriend in TC, and tell her I wasn't coming. I had to call the X, who was also struggling with our first Christmas apart, and tell her I was coming back to Tampa.
Confusion and anxiety compounded. Eventually I resolved to go on to TC the next day. The X said she would be ok.
I spent Christmas Eve night under a row of seats trying to find some sleep that never came.
Long story short, after 2 years of courting the TC lady, my wife and I got back together. In 2011 we we remarried. A few more years of struggle and we finally made it work.
Today both of us can say, we are the happiest we have ever been.
That Christmas Eve night, lying sleepless beneath a row of seats, in the Detroit airport, listening to Christmas music, was the beginning of Gods work on my spirit.
Sometimes God makes us go places we don't like, to bring us to places we need to be.
What a powerful story. Life is wild and amazing.
Good on you:) Your journey sounds like a country song...in a good way.
Amazing story FRiend! All of us have had challenges in our relationship. Wonderful story. On a side note when I was a young girl we always went to Traverse City for two weeks every summer. I have wonderful memories. Meryy Christmas!
Wow.
Just wow.
Merry Christmas.
Wow.
Just wow.
Merry Christmas.
True stat: 25% of all divorces remarry.
My parents did.