Someone Else’s Groom
At a classmate’s wedding, everyone joked with me, "So when are you getting married?"
I said, "Soon."
My girlfriend, Fiona Hartley, said she hadn’t thought about it yet.
After we spoke at the same time, she looked at me with undisguised disgust. "When did I ever agree to marry you?"
That night, claiming it was out of spite, she went out with friends to a get-together centered around her long-cherished first love.
I knew then that she had never intended to marry me.
So I didn’t try to stop her. I let the wedding plans continue as scheduled.
After all, she was never the woman I wanted to marry in the first place.