Hi, Amethyst!! Yup, have had to face him twice in 4 years - first was at my son's wedding, and then last year when my youngest got her doctorate. The first time, the wedding, neither of us had remarried and we jointly decided not to bring any "siignificant other" with us since it would be EXTREMELY awkward for our children in that setting. I had already met my now-husband and we were talking marriage, my exNH was supposedly engaged to someone (woman he eventually married). It was very awkward for ME because he kept trying to invade my space and "make like a family". During the family photos, whenever the photographer tried to snap me with the children in some arrangement, suddenly there he would be like we were all just one happy family like we had been for 32 years. Nutz. Finally, my son very discreetly took the photographer aside, told him that we were divorced and pictures were to be taken separately, and from then on the photographer would just ask him to step out of the picture. It went on all weekend like that, but I simply avoided having any long conversations with him although he tried to engage me several times - even plopped himself down across from me at the rehearsal dinner.
By the time the graduatiion came along, we were both married and had our new spouses with us. He walked into the room, said, "Well, there's Honey" and that was it, LOL. His new wife was very gracious and nice (not the woman who broke us up) and must have wondered why we proceeded to just ignore each other the whole evening, LOL. I made sure I sat at the farthest end of the table away from him so never had to have any conversation. The whole evening was like a bad Hollywood evening with everyone checking out everyone else, Haha. That's when I realized he had latched onto another sweet, Southern church lady who was the same kind of accommodating, don't-rock-the-boat personality that I had been. Poor soul. I am sure by now she wishes she had never met Mr. Wonderful.
Honey
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