Polite People...

And it all comes down to this... years of intimacy, sharing our deepest fears and dreams.
Basking in each others' company, squabbling, making up, fighting, making up....

Now we are but two strangers scraping bumpers every now and then...
waiting for that final sliver of a rope that links us now to be severed forever.


It's quite insulting really - that it all boils down to legal work.
That something as momentous as the vows of marriage can be so easily trivialized.
Yet I look at this "insult" with mere amusement.


Funny too, that I seem to have either been numbed or healed by the passage of time.
That I no longer harbour (too much) resentment or regret.
Rather I wish to be done with the legal proceedings as quickly yet properly as possible.
After all, in all respects, I have been single and alone for possibly a year or more now.

If anything, this whole experience has taught me this:
I AM an adult now. (OK, have been for a while)
And the decisions I make have strong repercussions.


I believe that I have yet to be able to interact with him without a shred of anger.
I try quite hard to be civil and unbiased.
But perhaps it comes with the territory....




So with a click of my mouse.... I have proclaimed for all the world (facebook) to see:
-- Legally or not,
I am no longer linked to him.