What to Do When Your Ex Transforms into a Prince… for Someone Else
When I went through a breakup in college, my aunt bought me a little frog-shaped candle and reminded me that I’d have to kiss a lot of frogs to find my prince. What we didn’t know then, and only know now in hindsight, is that I would go on to marry a frog and still be sitting here all these years later with no prince in sight. She wasn’t wrong though.
There have been a lot of kisses. Some just plain bad, some good, some great, some incredibly amazing, and one inexplicable drive-by kiss that I wouldn’t have believed if it hadn’t happened. But, alas, no prince. Of course, it probably doesn’t help that I haven’t really been looking, but still. I’m a great kisser, and not one of these guys has managed to make the leap to prince status. Either my kisser is broken, or these frogs are flawed! Color me annoyed!
But I’ve found another phenomenon that I’m not sure I like. Sometimes we are left by a frog or we do the leaving, and they go off and transform into a prince for someone else. Even if we don’t want the ex one little bit, that still rankles. There’s nothing like watching exes treat future partners like a queen (or king) when they treated us like peasant garbage.
I’ve had this happen on more than one occasion, and even though I didn’t want either man after the relationship ended, it…
