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October 2001. I thought that I had met my true love. He was a guest at a hotel that I was working at. At first I did not really notice him. He would come to the front desk for the smallest things at times. I then realized how sweet and attentive he was. Sometmes at night when I was bored with no guests to bug me, he would come and keep me company. I never thought anything of it until he invited me out to dinner about 4 months later. Now I am not the kind of person who jumps to conclusions and thougt that he was just being a friend and being sweet as well.
At dinner he asked if he could sit right next to me. I said yes. We had a nice dinner with wonderful conversation. We went to watch a movie of my choice. I chose "Black Hawk Down". What a choice for a date night right? I guess I was just being myself. That night he drove me home and asked if he could come and see me the next night which I believe was February 13th.
The 13th came around, that night we went to a Chinese restaurant and he asked if he could be my boyfriend. Now no one has ever asked me that before. I thought that it was the cutest thing.
Now he had a white color job and after 9/11 the job market in his field went down the toilet. He quit his job, I think he knew that he would be was next in line for lay offs. He tried and tried to find a job but there was no work.
His friend who lived in Thailand invited him over to work as an English teacher. I had a bad feeling about this. I had heard so many things about Thailand and the women there. I knew that nothing good woould come out of this. I let him go anyway. I am not a selfish person.
He called often for about a month or so. The calls then started to get less and less. He would email me now and then just to check on me. I had a feeling that something was not right. He came to visit five months later. We went to Vegas and to Utah. We argued the whole trip. I could not uderstand why this loving man had suddenly changed.
He had a storage unit where he kept his belongings while he was away. He asked me to help him out at the storage one night. He had a bag that he brought from Thailand with him. He asked if I could empty out the bad. I dumped what was in there on to the floor and lo and behold, there it was staring right at me, a card from a woman. Oh my heart. No words can explain how I felt. The hurt the disappointment, confusion, anger.
What did I ever do to him to deserve this?
He told me that it was just a "fling". He claims he thought that I was doing the same thing. What an insult! I loved him, why would I do such a thing to him?
He left and went back to Thailand. We were still in contact but not much. He wrote me about six months later to sayt that he was moving back to the US but was going to another State.
I still kept his car parked and safe till he got back. He came to pick up his car and left.
We still kept in contact via email. I started seeing someone else about a year after he came back.
Something told me that he was keeping something away from me so I one day asked him if he was married. He then admitted ti marrying the same girl he claimed to have a fling with. It so happened that he married her almost immediately after the visit he made to see me.
Aftr about a year he wrote and said the he and his wife were moving back to the state where I live. By this time I accepted that he had moved on and there really was no hope for me. I was not very happy in the relationship I was in. My new boyfriend was a decent guy but had too many issues and regrets about his previous relationship. I tried to keep that relatiosnship together till I found out that he was on the internet looking for Russian brides. Things started to fall apart after that.
My ex and his wife moved back to the State wher we met. We met for lunch about 2 years later. It was weird to see him and I'm sure he felt the same. We went about our lives, He told me that he wsa having marital problems. She eventually left and they got divorced. I eventually moved out of my current boyfriend's house because that was not working out either.
I gave it another try with this man that I loved so much.

( Not done with story yet- WIP) Edits pending.

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