Keep Your Friends Close

by Lucinda Berry

“Being like what? I’m not doing anything. I just got home after a long day, and I want to go to bed. I wasn’t trying to get jumped by my ex-wife when I—” Her words stopped us both. Ex-wife.

I’d have a called her a bairn waste of a uterus and that finding a younger model wasn’t gonna make her pussy any less broken but that’s just me

The fact I’d sold my corporate credit card company for $7 million when I was twenty-three years old didn’t faze them. If it wasn’t something you could brag about or post on Instagram, they weren’t really interested in it.

Girl fuck them

It’d never dawned on me that Abby would bring Liza to the party. Never once. I’d expected her to be alone.

I want bad things to happen to this bitch

teeny-tiny voice piped up that maybe my relationship with Abby wasn’t as healthy or as perfect as I’d made it out to be before all this. But I quickly silenced that voice like I did every time she tried to rear her ugly head. I’d made sacrifices for love, that was all. We all had.

You sweet stupid summer child

Maybe that was the trick. Pretend the problem didn’t exist.

Nah the trick is to transfer half his money into a separate account. Lock him out of everything and get power of attorney cause girl tf?!!

We were doing something. Something good, and we needed that right now. All of us.

Yall ain’t doing shit and Brooke needs to get her shit together and start throwing her money around

Constantly checking in. All those things you did when you were really into someone. People gave you their attention when they were interested in you, and they had each other’s completely.

Men didn’t have the same burden, so how could he know? How could I expect him to understand? No man really could. They got points just for sticking around and not leaving. Their bar for parenthood was set so low, you could step over it. Ours was impossible to reach, and there was no way to win no matter what you did.

She’d been here. She knew. And I’d been a horrible friend about it. Absolutely terrible to her. I didn’t have a clue what it felt like to have your world ripped away from you in an instant. My insides swirled. Karma was indeed a bitch.

So, I didn’t have any money and neither did he. Starting over requires funds.” And she’d given me access to all of them just like Colin said she would. It was amazing how well he knew her.

Holy shit Batman

What kind of a mother left their children? I was so incredibly sorry and ashamed, but no one had ever loved me. Really loved me like Colin did, and I was almost forty-two years old. Half my life gone. I kept telling myself that men walked away from their families all the time, but it didn’t make me feel any better about it.