The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Good
Mother’s Day was ok, I got through it. It’s a tough day for someone like me who wants to be a mom so badly. Now, on to matters at hand. I have 2 friends named “Linda”. There’s Good Linda who I used to work with a while ago, who I scrapbook with, who’s kids I adore.
Bad
Then there is Bad Linda. I’ve mentioned her here before. A couple months ago about making inappropriate comments about my husband. I’ve made some adjustments since then, I don’t see her as much (we went to the same church and I’ve taken the opportunity to change churches since we moved to another town anyway), and after my surgery I’ve been able to avoid her at the social situations (dinner club, etc) where I’d see her. She did drop by to visit me a few times post surgery, and at that point I still wasn’t savvy to her intentions (and was still desperately trying to give her the benefit of the doubt). Well, things have come to a head and it’s gonna get ugly.
Ugly
The ugly started a couple weeks ago, when I realized how paranoid she’s made me with her comments. I overreacted to a well meaning girlfriend who was just trying to make me laugh and instead I got angry thinking “oh great, now she’s got a thing for my husband too!”. But of course she doesn’t. But Bad Linda does. Turns out BL’s been all of the sudden shopping at my husband’s store. He didn’t want to upset me (since things have been so stressful already) so he didn’t mention it. Until now. It seems that while I was away visiting my grandmother for mother’s day, BL made a point to drop in to his store and let him know that her boyfriend is still out of town, and since I’m still recovering if he wants to drop by and see her it would be just fine. And don’t worry, Shannon doesn’t have to know. Nice. And for the love of Pete- we’re supposed to be church friends! So of course my husband told me and he’s going to discuss with his manager if there’s some way they can officially ban her from the store, but until then, I have to find some way, and time, to confront her, and to end what I thought was a good friendship. We’ve been friends for 5 years now, and this just sucks. With all of our infertility issues, I really don’t need this kind of stress.
Bless Your Heart 