Lessons In Love
My first love was in high school when I was still living in Greece. We were so in
love, I was everything to him and he was everything to me. Then, one day, my father said
“We’re moving back to Miami!”. I will never forget that day, it felt as if my whole
world had been turned upside down in an instant. I felt light-headed all of a sudden. I
was devastated! I thought to myself this is my one and only true love and I’m going to
lose him forever.
When I moved back to Miami I was so depressed and spent most of my time
running up my father’s telephone bill due to hours and hours of talking on the phone long
distance to my boyfriend. Eventually time and the distance took a toll on the relationship
and I realized that it wasn’t the end of the world, that my life wasn’t over. Then I met my
next boyfriend and realized that in my young innocence I couldn’t conceive the notion
that life goes on and you do find other people to love and who love you. Of course I
found out that you do.
I met my husband when I was 27 years old. We were friends at first. At some
point we knew there was something more than friendship there and then we kissed. He
was an extremely successful businessman and we lived a very extravagant lifestyle. We
did all the materialistic things that young people with money do. Thousand-dollar
shopping sprees, first-class vacations, expensive cars, million-dollar homes. The best
life has to offer we had it and we had the best time, so we decided to get married. Then
something happened to change it all. My husband lost a lot of money on a deal that
didn’t come through and it crushed him. He became distant only focusing on work and
obsessed with regaining what he had lost. We stopped making love. I felt awful and
there was nothing I could do to help him. On top of that he made me feel like it...
