Me2Wee

It is 1991, I am living in Texas at the time and the life of my dreams has become a nightmare. My husband of 5 years is unemployed, spending money as fast as I can make it, having affairs, and in fact, a few months earlier, I had come home a day early from a business trip to find him in bed with my girlfriend. That was the wake up call.

Heartbroken, but mostly embarrassed and confused, I am sitting in my therapist’s office. How can this be happening to me? I am a successful executive in one of the world’s leading publicly traded software companies, I am a nationally ranked tri-athlete, I have a beautiful home on a lake, I am a self made millionaire…

Why is my marriage falling apart? Why am I estranged from my family in Canada? Why do I feel lonely in a room full of friends? Why do I never feel good enough? Can I stay in a marriage with a man I do not trust?

The key that unlocked my heart was when my therapist asked, “What do you want from you father?” Oh, that is simple I said, “For him to love me the way that I am and the way that I am not”. “Great,” she said. “Can you do the same thing for him?” The resounding “Hell no” answer that I provided was the beginning of my journey into love, marriage, partnership.

Thanks for joining us in Me2Wee! as we explore the roller coaster of committed relationships. Grace and I want to share our journeys into our committed relationships, we want to talk about the embarrassing fights, the temper tantrums, the giving up, the greatness of staying, the witnessing of another human and to be so witness. I want your partnership as I explore: Can I love him the way that he is, and the way he is not….