The EX Files

I was writing a completely different blog when I received a call that led me to this one.  If you're a single, black woman over the age of 25 I KNOW you can relate. 

So my phone rings at 10:30pm, I look at the screen and notice its the name of an old, now married friend.  I answer the phone with a confused hello.  You know the "why the hell are you calling me" voice.  And no, not because I'm mad or bitter but because I always think of the wife.  Would she appreciate her man calling a female that she doesn't know at 10:30?  I'm sure the answer is no hence my attitude.  The conversation is light.  He asks how I've been, I tell him.  I ask him about his wife, he makes light of their marriage.  And then the conversation turns when he says, "Man I wish you could of been my wife". (Le sigh)  The conversation ended shortly after that.

The sad part about this conversation is that I have had it with more than one married man from my past.  They all call under the guise that they are just checking on me and then it always turn to the shoulda, coulda, wouldas.  I wonder how many women from their past that they call and try to reminisce with.  Now I could be all full of myself and think that it's just me that they call but I know better than that.  What is it with guys and their dreams of what could have been?  It makes me nervous about my future hubby.  Is he going to be calling up his college sweetheart?  I have had two of the guys tell me that they were in the process of getting a divorce and the two of them are still married.  Maybe they were hoping that by telling me that, I would give them some predivorce booty.  Luckily I am smarter than your average bear.  I do my duty and pay no mind to these married men.  I respect marriage.  I do this in hopes that one day if my husband decides to go back down memory lane, he comes across a woman like me.