I wasn't sure where exactly to put this...
I'll try to sum it all up as best I can:
My ex-sister-in-law (very much still family - I know, seems weird to those that don't know the story about me and my ex-wife) and her fiance/boyfriend/whatever helped to basically rescue me from a bad situation in Indiana. They came up and got a truck and helped load all my stuff up and brought me and my kids back home to Tennessee. This was just before last Christmas. I've been renting out the upstairs in their (her) house ever since.
Well, they had issues that I was unaware of and their relationship (after 8+ years) was deteriorating... He talked to me here and there and made sure I knew that it had nothing to do with me and my kids being here, though.
Well, he moved out a few months ago... and she has tried her best to break things off with him permanently, but he has had an extremely hard time accepting it. He still had a copy of the house key and kept coming around and coming in when she wasn't here and stuff... He constantly tried to talk her into giving them another chance, etc. etc. The hardest part, I think, for him was that she starting seeing someone else...
Anyway, I've tried to be a friend to him... an ear to listen... a "shoulder to cry on"... I went thru a lot with my ex-wife and he was around when all that happened so he knew I could probably kind of understand more than most.
Apparantly, he completely lost it:
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As everyone can imagine, this has been an insanely awful week... It has actually affected me more than I thought it would, ...probably because I spent about 2 1/2 hours last Sunday morning talking with him about things.. ..and then less than 24 hours later.........
I've gone over and over and over that conversation in my mind
so many times this week.
I just wish I had seen it coming somehow... some hint that he could even consider doing something like this... But it really is just like you always hear: He was a really great guy, and nobody would've ever thought he'd be capable of doing something so horrible.
Jess (my "sis") has gone thru hell this week.. beating herself up, blaming herself...
Please, if you are a praying person... please keep my sis Jessica in your thoughts and prayers... but most especially Dean's little girl - she is only 7 years old and now her father has been taken from her...
Also remember the rest of Dean's family... I know they are really hurting and grieving right now...
But also Brian's family...... they need people's prayers and support also. I can't imagine what they must be going through.
...but....... Brian also needs prayers as well.
Don't worry about me, I'll be fine ...although I won't be online at all this weekend because I'm going to be at a friend's house... house-sitting as well as child-sitting(?) - lol.
On second thought, pray for me -- I've never had to deal with five kids on my own before. haha...
This past nightmare of a week...
