Disclaimer: I don't own Plum characters. A nod of respect goes to Janet Evanovich and her imagination for creating these characters.
Inner Dialogue: Stephanie
Pre-OFTM.
I'd had enough. I had come to the point of no return with him and I was no longer willing to allow him to step on me to get to where he wanted to be in life. I wasn't going to keep my mouth shut. I wasn't going to turn the other way while he fucked whoever on the side. I was raised to be a housewife. I was raised to turn cheek when my husband did something that I didn't approve of because that's what a proper housewife did for her husband. He brings home the money; he works all those hours and deserves whatever he wants. But that was just all bullshit that women who had no backbone used to stay with a worthless husband because they were afraid to be on their own.
And I never thought myself to be one of them.
I drove home from my parent's house, planning the conversation in my head. I wanted to be rational. I wanted to be the bigger person this time.
I heard those sort of women laughing behind my back while I was in line at the deli, whispering about what woman my husband was running around with now, and we hadn't even been married a year yet. Not only were they laughing at me, but they were laughing at my mother and that doesn't cut it with me.
Now my mother and I haven't always agreed on everything, and I'm a bit of a problem child for her, but she is my mother. My mother has put up with a lot of shit in her life, but I wouldn't allow her to put up with this. This was the last straw. I'd turned my back on him for the last time. We were through.
Bonus: LMT Conversation
I pulled my phone out and didn't need to look at the read-out. I knew it was Ranger.
"Babe."
"I told you no."
Challenge: Inner Dialogue Challenge
Challenge Bonus: Short Conversation
Original Posting Date: February 24, 2007