Fairy Tales

Recently one of the two living ghosts in my life appeared out of nowhere and said hello. I have not heard nor seen this person for over 5 years so it gave me quiet a scare and many emotions were soon to follow. Out of this came a moment of weakness where I decided to check in on the other ghost in my life (my ex). Although I didn't send him hate mail or call him and then quickly hang up instead I went the slightly more modern route and google'd him. Silly me....

What I found was his wedding photographers blog about his wedding and a small collection of pictures. One might think seeing him so happy and her so beautiful would break my heart but it wasn't the pictures that bothered me (mostly because he looked like he'd gained weight, his smiles were all off and more on the smirky/fake side, and although she was relatively pretty I thought she looked too young for him).

No it wasn't the pictures, it was in fact the text that the photographer had written about them that really ticked me off. She stated how "he and her had a fairy tale story that he had asked her out once and she said no, so he invited her on a road trip from their college back to his home almost 3,000 miles away and that it was during the trip that she fell in love with him. Their wedding cake was adorned with a small car and a black road wrapped around it as a symbol to their beginnings."

What bothered me so much was the part of the story that was missing, there was, obviously, no mention of how he was in a relationship with another woman (me) at the time of the road trip. How he only spoke with the current girlfriend once the entire week long road trip and that his excuse for such behavior was because it would have been awkward to talk in front of his friend (now wife) (probably because he didn't want the new girlfriend hearing him talk to the current girlfriend). Nor was there any mention of how the current girlfriend dumped him because at the time she thought he was being distant, rude, and most importantly incapable of true emotion or love. (Though as it turns out it appears that maybe he was just  cheating on her.) And the fact that they would memorialize his cheating bastard self on their cake, just disgusts me.

When considering the entire story I wonder how anyone would describe this as a fairy tale? Do fairy tale relationships still exist or for that matter did they ever exist?  Or does every relationship have it's dark back story that is never retold?

And all of this makes me wonder what will be said on my wedding day, what will be our fairy tale beginning?

After several years of tirelessly searching the vast internet far and wide for his one true love he found her amongst a crowd of other women in a land called OkCupid. It took much effort to push his way through the hoards of emails and online photographs of maidens asking for his hand before he finally encountered Yellowtail Damselfish's profile.  There was something about her distinct coloring that caught his eye. She was a small but beautiful lady with just the right sense of humor, passion for the environment, and dreams for the future. Although it took him over a week after their first date at Starbucks to call her back on their second date to the zoo, as he watched her take pictures of the warthogs, he realized that he was falling in love. And as they say ... the rest was history.