The High Road (Initiation is Brutal)

Martin Wehmer

"I promise you that someday, you will look back at this chain of events and chuckle - feeling proud you made it through by taking the high road. 

You are a beautiful, dynamic, classy woman who will win this race with elegance."

 ~ Sherri, Founding Member

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Seven months in. The calendar a blur. 

Initiation into this club is exhausting, physically and mentally. 

My body aches with the stress and fatigue of worry.

Our kids, my bank account (current balance: $84), the house, the lawyer bills, 

the car, the lawyer bills again?

And anger. 

Dude, who so quickly ran away wants to live a simpler life. 

A bargain of a simpler life.

So I fight.

I cling to Sherri's words.

I run it off.

I hug our children.

Get some rest.

Keep going.

Oh, how I'm longing for the day when can I look back at this,

the day that I can look down at him,

from my perch on the high road.

~