Lesson Learned... Again.

I've learned a lot of really important lessons in my almost 40 years on this plane of existance. But I feel like there is particular lesson that keeps coming to the surface, and one that, clearly... I haven't learned how to prevent from happening. Relationships are about trust. If you have to play detective because your spider senses are tingling, then it is definitely time to move on. I feel like I say this quite a bit... but always trust your gut. At the end of the day, the worst kind of hurt is betrayal.. because it means that someone was willing to hurt you, just to make themselves feel better. We all (myself included) deserve better than that. On top of my own personal experience with betrayal this week, I also had to tell a friend about the potential betrayal of her husband, when I found a dating profile he had set up on one of the dating websites. It is never fun to have to tell someone you care about that you think their spouse may be cheating on them.  If you are in a relationship with someone - whether it be committed by marriage, or an exclusive partnership - and you aren't happy within that relationship, you either need to learn how to fix it, or you need to have enough respect for the person you once cared about to just end it. And for anyone considering infidelity, I say to you, there is something wrong with your character if opportunity controls your loyalty. 

I haven't seen my bestie Callie in a few weeks, so we made plans to have brunch today. She lives about an hour and a half away, so we decided to meet in Bath, Maine at Mae's Cafe. Neither of us had been there, and my trusty side-kick Yelp led us here... and I'm so glad.

Callie had a sautéed Kale salad with avocado, carrots, cabbage, onion and two eggs on top. I had a Quinoa Breakfast bowl with quinoa, sweet potato, spinach, onion, avocado, roasted red pepper aioli with two eggs on top. The food was spectacular, but the company (the sweet dog beside us included) was even better. I hope everyone has a friendship like the friendship I have had with this woman for the past 30 years. When I texted her earlier in the week to tell her about the most recent drama in my love life, she laughed, hysterically. Then she reminded me that in a few days, I was going to find it funny too - and she's right, because honestly, I couldn't make this shit up if I tried. I honestly have spent a good amount of time this week trying to figure out how I could turn all of these stories into a book that people would actually buy, and read. I just need someone to market the idea to a publisher.. I'll do everything else. Get on it, friends. I'll be waiting.