I'm still Facebook friends with lots of people that we, my wife and I, were actively friends with a wile back. Most of your local friendships have been with the parents of friends of our children. There are some people we know from work, a local running club, neighbors, etc. But I didn't grow up around here, so there are no childhood friends within 1,000 miles.
Anyway, getting to the point. I saw a post on Facebook of a friend who had been to some kind of event, probably a wedding and there were a bunch of pictures, which I scrolled through. What I didn't see, were any pictures of her husband. Curiosity overcame me and I scrolled through her photo album: After 2017, he is nowhere to be seen.
A quick Google search turned up three items: 1. A man matching his description listed at a nearby address, which is different from their house. 2. A public record of the sale of the house, from the two of them to just the (possibly former) wife.
I discussed all of this with my wife and we are both somewhat sad about all of it and she related a story that she probably told me about before, but had forgotten: She went to some movie with her, as she calls them "lady friends" after words, some of them went to a local, townie kind of place for drinks. She noticed a disheveled man walk by on his way in and afterwards recognized him as the husband.
Item 3. which I kept to myself, (she doesn't read my blog--which I suppose I should mind, but don't.) is that I turned up a police blotter from our local paper, dated about 7 years ago--around when she spotted him: It indicated he'd been arrested for DUI and it was a repeat offense. I didn't want to tell her this, because, depressing. I does raise a question in my mind: Did his drinking break-up the marriage, or did the break-up lead to excessive drinking?
It should be noted that whenever we got together with this couple, they both drank, not excessively, but also, not sparingly.
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