What happens after a breakup?

Former flames are a fascinating thing.

I’m only friends with one woman from my past. 

The other two (I was in three official relationships before meeting my wife) are people I’m not really interested in, so I don’t keep track of them.

My wife, however, she’s a snooper.

She likes seeing what’s going on with old lovers, and since I wouldn’t look mine up, she did.

Well, she looked up one of them; the woman I dated right before her.

And holy poop on a stick, I dodged a bullet. She dumped me, and God bless her for it.

I’ve already discussed that, but along that same line of thought… What if? What if we’d remained together?

Would her life have been better; would mine have been worse?

Without a Trace” by Harlan Coben is a gripping thriller that takes the reader into a whirlwind of mysteries and plot twists, plunging into a complex web of secrets, past tragedies, and international intrigues. Detective Myron Bolitar, the protagonist of several of Coben’s adventures, finds himself involved in a complicated case linked to his past. An unexpected encounter with his former flame,…

I don’t blame me at all. 

I heard her voice on a video where she was presenting something.

I assumed they’d have broken up by now, but now it’s holidays and living together.

I still feel weird about it. Weird’s the only word to describe it: not bitter, not envious, not resentful. Just weird.