Echoes of a relationship long-buried

She commented on a post after I did: I was surprised to see her name in my Facebook notifications and stunned I haven't been blocked. But I was also surprised that a lot more emotion came flooding back than I'd ever expected to find.

I don't talk about her much. There's my occasional self-deprecating comment, "back when I was an adulterer", but very little about my actual wife and many friends have been surprised to find out I was once married. Of course, many of my friends made jokes about her being fictitious even during the relationship: such is life when only one of you is on the road.

It also made cheating very easy. But I don't do that anymore.

We'll be ten years separated in September, nine years divorced in April. I'm sure she'll come up a lot in my musings as those dates approach, but I find it a hard topic to discuss.

Thanks for bearing with me.