h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Tomorrow is the 15th December 2001.

For so long this was I date that I and FC were lookinig forward to with great relish as that was the day she would walk down the aisle of her local kirk. And where we would finally become man and wife a state of affairs we feel we have existed in since the day I presented her with her engagement ring anyway.

However tomorrow we are leaving behind a quagmire of hurt feelings and emotions and trying to escape for a week of love between the two of us. How well we manage this with mobile phones having been used to cause a great deal of pain in the last few days it is hard to tell.

Last night for example FC's mum kept calling her and continuing to caast aspertions at the suitablity of the man that her daughter has chosen to marry, spend time with and indeed in time to have children with.

I was left wiping away tears in London via a phone call at 3:30 am this morning.

Tomorrow should have been the happiest day of ouor lifes yet because of something that neither of us can fathom or get to the bottom of, the last two weeks have been very tramatic and drawn us closer, while the main insigator of all the pain is only drawing an even deeper divide that is becoming ever increasing difficult for anyone to cross.

FC even wanted to spend some time with her brother this evening but he was unwilling to change his plans with his mates to fit his sister in for just one hour. Poor FC is looking at losing everything she has ever known more and more, and this is meant to the be the eve of the day she gained a husband, not lost everything else.

The only member of her family who has shown her any level of support is her Aunt who at least has asked her how she is feeling about the coming date. No one else has even seemed to care about her feelings in all this.

No doubt tomorrow will be hard, for both of us, but at least we will have each other, and most likely a bottle of wine to consol ourselves with in our little hideaway.

No matter what though I love Lyndsey and wish there was something I could do to make her life with her family easier. But apart from turning my back on her which would only make the two of us insanely depressed and is not the solution there seems to be nothing I can do to be reconciled to her mother. And yet the accusation that seem to be leveled at me are minor compared to the mudslinging that she is doing to try and tarnish my name (This has actually included carrying out something which is in a very grey legal area.) with the woman who knows me better than anyone else. And that someone is willing to stand vby me through think and thin.

Especially now when it is extremely thin.

Happy wedding eve. I think not.

Looking forward to happier days (after all there is no point looking back for them)

I wanted to wait until some time had passed before I posted here. Your week is nearly up, and I'd like to know how you are both coping.
I wish there was something I could do to help the two of you out. For now, take all my love, and know I am thinking of you both.

Well we were very surpised by the reactino when we returned from our little break.

Not only is it a case that we are being talked to, but I'm allowed back into the family home and we are both staying over fro the next two nights so we can both join in with the consumption of alcohol.

So all in all Christmas has started to feel like Christmas again.

BTW the 'honeymoon' was great we can thoroughly recommend the cottage we stayed at if you want to get away into peace and quiet for a while.

Oh good, I'm so glad. Me and BluesShark are relieved to hear it.
And congratulations on your nephew! At least his mum won't miss xmas dinner tomorrow.

Gosh. Took me a long time to get to this. Probably some inbuilt defence mechanism kept me away from here. I know its a reason why I'm not online very much (well, apart from all the work I'm meant to be doing!)

Oh love, we had a fabulous time, and what happened between us on that Saturday, even if its not recognised by any bugger else, you know that I feel as if we are husband and wife. And have done for for a very long time.

What you mean to me, I cannot even begin to express, but knowing you are there for me at the end of a dark day sharing in my pain, or tickling me out of depression, and knowing you are there at the end of a joyous day, sharing in my elation, it means so much to me. You mean so much to me.

I love you always. Even if you do annoy me at times... I'm pretty sure thats healthy