If you haven’t already, you need to read my friend Alyssa’s blog. She’s been giving us serial installments of the story of her marriage and divorce that happened over ten years ago. Not only is it written beautifully, but I am also loving the mix of perspectives she shares from then and now.
I admire her for many reasons, but I especially admire her ability to share this story with such honesty and poise. Here are links to the story up to this point:
Part I: The Beginning
Part II: The Pressure
Part III: Ending the Courtship Phase
Part IV: The Proposal
Part V: The Engagement
Part VI: Wedding Eve
Part VII: Wedding Day
This will bring you up to speed, although I’m a little jealous that you’ll get to read it in one continuous flow instead of waiting semi-patiently for each installment and occasionally writing threatening letters demanding to know what happened next. In fact, that reminds me—time to write another threatening letter!
I nearly needed a kleenex reading this. Thank you for such a high compliment. This is an interesting journey that is really only just beginning. I still have half a wedding day and 10 months of marriage to go. This could be a long ride.
Thanks again for all your encouragement (as well as many of your readers who have already found me), it is making the process surprisingly enjoyable (of course 13 years of separation from the crisis interspersed with some intense therapy helps too).
I found her blog via yours and have been stalking her blog since the wedding story. Except today I am very impatient because I read the wedding yesterday and at least want to know about the reception and the honeymoon before the end of the weekend (well really the end of today.) It’s like I’m addicted to some reality TV show — and I don’t even watch reality TV.
I’ve been keeping up with Alyssa’s blog for awhile now and I’m absolutely entranced with the story. She’s such a lovely writer and she has a way of keeping her audience completely enrapt. I can’t wait for the next installment!
Amazing writing. I too have been captivated even though I know how it ends. The creep. I think Alyssa’s next installment needs to be about high school when they’d all get dressed up (meaning ridiculously) and go greet people at the airport or McDonalds.
Wow. What a difficult life experience. I’m sorry, but did that Bishop think that by marrying off his 20-something members, he’d avoid any problems with them, or something? I can’t imagine why he felt to push her in that direction. I am hooked on her story, and my heart is aching for her. I have a young friend that I think might benefit from reading her story; maybe it would open her eyes to help her avoid similar heartache.
Wow. Just….wow. I got to be a sideline player in an event like this almost 2 years ago where my wife swayed one of her young women from making very similar decisions. I just ache for the ‘old’ Alyssa and would love to know how this played out over the years. Then again, maybe not?