My son broke up with his girlfriend, who was his girlfriend for, like, seven years. And he had invited her here to stay and – had invited her here and I guess they were trying to finish breaking up, but he didn’t tell me that that’s what was going on.
The pandemic had just pretty much ended. It was June of 2021, and things were not going very well for him. She had been an ICU nurse during the entire pandemic and things did not – had been horrible. She had had an affair with a traveling male nurse. A lot of things had gone on, but he had never told me any of this. So, when she came to stay for Sunday dinner to eat, and my parents were – er, my dad and his wife were here and other people were here, I didn’t really think too much of it. She had come – had Sunday dinner at our house several times. And, it was really horrible because I didn’t know that this was going to be the end.
They kind of argued a bit during dinner and we all kind of stared at them, but nobody really, you know, thought too much of it. And so, as everything was being cleaned up and everything, I told her to come back soon and, you know, come back and see us soon. And my son looked at me like, you know, he’s going to kill me. And my dad’s wife came out and said, “I just don’t understand why [name] doesn’t put a ring on your finger. You’ve been dating for a long time.” Well, that didn’t help things. Then both of them got mad. I – [name], my husband took Dad’s wife out of the room, and I tried to make things go better.
We all ended up going out to the driveway where they got into each of their cars and left. And I was definitely in the frying pan because I didn’t know what was going on. My son, after she left, he eventually came back and apologized to us for not having told us all this was going on. But boy, I’ll tell you, what a horrible mess.