The Mysterious Case of the Ex

It's all coming back to me now...

Are you familiar with this Celine Dion song?

Today a naughty thought came to my head. I will recount it just as it played out. In my head.

You know how you date someone and then, circumstances that you may not immediately recall case you to break up. But then you run into them eons, I mean tons of months later and they are looking good. So fine. Probably even better than you remember them looking back in the day. You get to chatting and initially, conversation is flowing fast and as freely as the wine. You find yourself tossing your hair back, doing that shoulder lean, tucking in your tummy...summoning your six-pack, trying to stay cute, you know? You start to ask: Oh why did I let this one get away?

Then, they say or do something and another thing and then another. It's like a barrage of wrong statements, judgments, insinuating remarks, criticisms, idiotic stuff from them enveloping you. They all hit you like a blow to the chest.

"...it was gone long ago, but it's all coming back to me. I can barely recall but...it's all coming back to me now."

It all makes sense now. THIS IS WHY WE BROKE UP.

You ask for the check, drain your glass, feel it burn your insides, mumble some excuse about a sick cat, and jet out of there. On the drive home, you realize, it was all a grand plan. God was saving you from something when it didn't work out, and only He knew that. You softly whisper, "Thank you God for saving me from that hot mess!" Never fear when something you so earnestly wanted to work out ends in time, for there is a reason. The reason may not be apparent to you but it will surface in time. It works both ways too. He may be searching for something that you do not have and vice versa, and inasmuch as you both seem to have the right chemistry in every which way, that search is what sustains the interest and if it is not in you, it rarely ever just shows up.

Is this the same result for your "Case of the Ex?" Is it a good riddance to your ex, or, I totally made a mistake making you an ex?

I would like to know...