Let's see how this goes, shall we?

Where to begin? I guess at the beginning would be good, but man-oh-man there have to be some patient people out there to read it all. Perhaps I should do this in installments. Yeah, that's a good idea.

I'll call this particular blog "Part 1". It'll be a brief background of things more than a vent/rant.

I met my now-husband a long, long time ago.

It was about 16 years ago, and I went to high school with the woman he would marry after graduation. Because I knew her and the two of us got along decently, I met him. And so he and I became friends.

I married right out of HS myself. He was a decent man who turned out to be a better friend than a husband, but such is life. He and I had two wonderful sons together, and for a while we were very happy.

In the mean time, my buddy from HS married the guy that had become my friend. They had a daughter together. I am unsure, though, if they were ever a happy couple. Theirs was a relationship full of drama and BS. She cheated on him numerous times, and then began to neglect their child.

He and I remained friends through our marriages. When his ended, I was there to talk and listen. When mine ended, he returned the favor. In my case, the ex and I did the joint custody thing; the boys lived with me 90% of the time, and their dad took them every other weekend, Wednesdays, and two weeks during the summer. All very amicable.

In my friend's case, his ex took the girl. He got visitation in the same way my ex did. Theirs, however, was a shaky situation.

Now that you have a bit of history, I can begin etching out what brought me to the place in which I exist today. Please see posts 2 through 1,000,000,000 for further details if you're interested.

You may very well get caught up in it. It's all sort of twisted and screwy. Sometimes I can hardly believe I've lived it. *sigh*