I had been single for about a year when I met Megan, a thirty-year-old single mother. She was a hot blonde with nice curves, long legs and a great smile. I know what you thinking after that intro, but this isn’t a Penthouse Forum article, it’s a real relationship in the making. Well, and yes, she had nice stems…
It wasn’t until too late that I found out about a third wheel in our relationship.
The Night Out
As a 36-year-old single white male, I typically was too busy at my job to spend time out at night, especially during the week. Dan, a friend of mine was moving to San Diego in the next several days and I wanted to give him a good send off. So we hit up Murphy’s Irish Pub on a rare Thursday evening out, for good food and as I anticipated way too much beer.
My small single group of friends was getting smaller as I was getting older, so my attitude towards relationships was really beginning to shift in favor of the coziness of home and the potential for family.
As Dan and I planned the night out at the last minute, we invited a number of work colleagues from each of our offices. Just my luck, Megan was a friend of a friend of Dan’s from his office. She was out on a rare weekday as well, needing a break from her daily routine, her job and her young daughter.
Yes, in some sense of the imagination, it was a typical story, I saw her from across the room, our eyes locked, I was drawn in. The anticipation was building as I crossed the room to meet her, the air was thick as molasses, and I felt my shoes get heavy. Well, you get the picture, to me she was that beautiful.
I made the walk, I smiled, introduced myself and didn’t give anyone else a chance to get in my way. I had finally met someone that I didn’t know I was looking for. Fate had intervened in the monotony of my life and after spending the next few hour talking and looking into her big beautiful eyes, I was hooked. The one I thought.
Dan’s Send-off and the Relationship
As my friend Dan left for California, I wished him well. I also shared with him my new found feelings for Megan and he wished us well. Megan and I got closer and closer and I even began to spend time with her family to include her 5-year-old daughter, was a charming young lady unto herself.
Her daughter had become a big part of my life and felt like I had the family that I never knew I wanted. I was contemplating where I would buy the ring, how many carats I could afford. Three months’ salary, really?
The Big Secret
We were together for a year when I found out the big secret. What I didn’t know was that Dan and Megan had once dated back in college.
Although she went there that evening to help send off Dan, she was there as a friend of a friend of one of Dan’s workmates (the story I was told- she had never met Dan before).
Megan had never mentioned that she was there for a more intimate reason, or that she knew Dan at all.
Dan also didn’t acknowledge that he knew Megan.
A mutual friend told me the story that both had failed to mention. They had an on again, off again relationship ever since their college days.
And now was no exception, they continued to be in contact, and had actually traveled to meet each other, during a supposed business trip to Tuscan.
The third wheel in our relationship was her constant contact and her longing for a man that didn’t want her enough to take her with him. As I confronted Megan with the truth she broke down and told me that it was over with them, he had never loved her and I should forgive her. Well, I did not. It was clear she loved him.
I moved on eventually, but my heart was broken in a million pieces.
