63. THE UNHAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH
I was at Disney with our kids. Day 2 of a 7-day family trip. My wife’s father had been, by that point, talking up this trip for about 7 years.
He and her mother told us when the kids were born, they were going to take us all to Disney when they turned 7… And seven years later, it finally happened.
At that point, my wife and I been together for over a decade.
Had a great job, a house, bunch of kids, and the full on, 100%, honest-to-goodness American Dream. Life was grand…until I picked up her phone to set an alarm on night 2 of our family vacation of a lifetime.
There were so many texts. So many. I remember actually wanting to hurt her and having to leave the room.
I immediately called the number, and heard some strange dude answer with a sleepy, “…Hello darling… I’m glad to hear from you…” I wanted to die.
The sense of unreality that I experienced…It was immediately numbing. Like I’d just switched to the dark timeline. All I could think was, “…from this point on, everything that I have known about my life is going to change.”