It is amazing to me the things we attribute so much significance to when at the end of the day they mean nothing, if relationships are not cultivated and maintained.
Why on earth do persons treat their supposed significant other like trash in private and then expect that same person to go to a public function with them and pretend that they have the best relationship going? It makes absolutely no sense.
Ken and Mary appeared to be the perfect couple. They were rarely apart and were the envy of all of their friends and acquaintances. So much so that after any function they attended, other couples went home arguing with a wife asking her husband why he can’t be more like Ken and her husband asking her why she can’t be more like Mary. They became so obsessed with Ken and Mary that instead of working at building a better relationship between them they ended up drifting apart with their marriage ending in divorce.
If they had only been able to see beyond the surface of Ken and Mary’s marriage, they would have saved their own.
Little did they know that Ken and Mary were the best actors who never made it to Hollywood. Every time they had to make a public appearance, they had a big ‘pow wow’ beforehand and in very heated and very unpleasant words, they made sure the other was on their best behavior, because they had an image to uphold.
All good things must come to an end but bad things seem to take a little longer. When the tension between Ken and Mary became too much to bear, they both flipped. In all of their years of marriage, there had been no physical abuse – just verbal, which is sometimes worse – and it was always kept very low keyed so the neighbors wouldn’t hear.
Imagine their neighbors shock, when they saw police cars and ambulances all over their property and up and down the normally quiet street. What could possibly have happened? Were they robbed? Is one of them sick? How come they didn’t say anything?
There was absolute silence when the body was rolled out and an even greater moment of disbelief, when being led out in handcuffs was the spouse, head hung low in disgrace, as the false world they created came crashing down and one of them did not make it out alive.
Velyn Cooper