“How can you be so calm?” she asked as she watched him get dressed.
He sat down on the edge of the bed and pulled on his socks. Then, he looked up at her, resting his arms on his legs. “How would you like me to be?”
“Upset, sad, anything but this.”
“I’m sorry, Juliette but, my getting emotional isn’t going to help the situation. It will just make it worse.”
“I’m a complete mess right now. I can’t bear the thought that it’s over between us–that-that you’re getting married in less than two weeks.”
“I’m sorry. You might not think so but this isn’t easy for me either. We have a history which started when we were in high-school. Until I met Jemma, you were the only serious girlfriend I had.”
“Why are you marrying her instead of me?”
He sighed and got to his feet. He picked his sweater from off the floor and pulled it on. “We’ve been through this before.”
“Okay, so she cooks as well as your mother, she supports your goals and ambitions and she’s into fitness. I cook as well as your mother too and I have always supported you and I’m a fitness freak too. What does she have over me, Jerome?”
“Are you sure you want to know?”
“Yes!”
“Jemma makes me genuinely happy—and that’s obvious to other people. She’s perfect wife/mother material. She shares a spiritual connection with me. She knows me better than I know myself and she’s the one I want to wake up next to every morning for the rest of our lives.”
Juliette was close to tears. “Do you love her?”
“Yes.”
“How can say you love her and be here with me?”
“You’re right. I shouldn’t be here. I should leave now.”
Juliette began to cry.
He hated to see her cry and was sorely tempted to take her in his arms and hold her tightly but he resisted. Instead, he said quietly, “Goodbye, Juliette.”
“Jerome, please let’s never say goodbye. It sounds so final…”
He looked at her, his eyes filled with sadness before he turned and walked out of her bedroom and out of her life for the last time.
Posted for September 2020 Writing Prompts – #9 – Let’s never say goodbye
Source: Brides;
I wish women will stop trying to conform to what men want in the hope that, he will marry them.
If a man has implied he doesn’t want to marry, bounce and wait for another.
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When the relationship is over, just accept that and move on.
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Yeah, but mostly the one who wants to hold on until he finds the one will not say, it’s over.
Would he have said goodbye if he didn’t meet the type of woman he wanted to marry?
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It’s possible that he would still be with the one he left if he hadn’t met the one he left her for. After all he slept with her one last time before walking out of her life. The ex needs to move on.
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I doubt the wife-to-be that he claims “understands him on a spiritual level” — or something to that effect — “understands” using a woman for sex “one last time” before dumping her.
The arrogance.
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You’re right. I don’t know of any woman who wouldn’t have a huge problem with her fiance sleeping with his ex one last time before walking out of her life for good.
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