Inspired by this thread, since we’re still waiting on the outcome at the time of posting.
Share the story of your most interesting unexpected encounter with an ex, be it good, bad, or ugly. Or all of the above!
I’ll go first. I believe I posted this initially as a sob story elsewhere on the Dope, but I can now recount it with a bit of humor. My ex-wife and I had a fairly bitter end to our marriage that involved her falling in love with and sleeping with another guy. We tried to reconcile; that failed. We tried to split up as friends, but I had an awful lot of bitterness toward her actions at the end of the marriage.
We’d had tickets to a taping of the NPR show “Wait, Wait…” that we’d both months before the split up. I said I didn’t think I could deal with going to the event with her at this point, so I passed. She said that if she couldn’t go with me, she wasn’t going to go at all because that was something that was meant to be about us as a couple, so there was no point. She was going to give them away. I didn’t give it much thought beyond that.
At the last minute, I found other tickets to the show on Craigslist, so I decided, what the hell? I was going to go enjoy myself. And who should I happen to run into at the show? With her new boyfriend, no less – the same guy she had cheated on me with. The guy she’d sworn up and down she wasn’t going to have anything to do with even after we’d split up because she needed to get her head straight.
She would tell me later that she didn’t actually remember saying she wasn’t going to be seeing him after we split up (hah!), but that regardless, life was too short and she just didn’t see any reason not to move forward.
I was really devastated by that at the time, but now I see it as mostly just a sign of her character. And other than having one of the most heart-wrenching experiences of my life while she was an aisle over and publicly showing off her new beau, I enjoyed the show.
So anyway – what’s your tale of triumph or woe?