The Other Woman

Recently my mother-in-laws sister was in town. As I zoned in and out of listening to conversations, I learned that mum-in-law’s sister had a bitter divorce when she was younger and counsels other woman to handle it maturely as she did. My husband’s ex had in fact called her when they were going through their divorce to admonish him to his relatives and demonstrate how unscrupulous he was. The lesson learned for us all was to ensure that we all have our pride and self-respect at the end of the day. However, this past week, we spent the new year holiday’s with the sister’s now-adult children only to learn that perhaps good old mum-in-law’s sister did not behave as the mature adult as we’d been lead to believe. In fact her children seemed very disenchanted with their mother, going so far as to claim that one or two have become estranged from her and that their relationship is now just a cordial one; that they are now firmly ‘entrenched in their father’s camp’ and had been lead to believe terrible untruths about their father. While my husband hopes that Em will one day learn the truth, he did say that he did not wish for his children to become estranged from their mother. Bravo to him for taking the high road!

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