Both my maternal grandmother and grandfather have been dead for years now (she in the late 1980s or early 1990s and he within the last decade), they married each other when they were both 20 years old, but I found out late in life that shortly after my mother and her younger sister were born to them, my grandmother left my grandfather for another man. She then lived with that second man on and off for a few years until his death from alcoholism. All of this happened before my mother was a teenager. I am not aware that my grandparents ever reunited as a married couple.
When I was born, my grandmother was living with another man who took very good care of her. I knew from a young age that he was not my grandfather, and it was sort of a hush-hush yet open secret throughout that they were not married to each other. That was considered scandalous back then, but in truth, it occurred with a lot more people than anyone would readily admit. She and he stayed together for at least 25 years, which is how old I was when my grandmother passed away.
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You didn’t specify that in addition to divorcing any of them ran off with anyone, that’s the point of the thread.
I haven’t revealed anything concrete about my age, and in fact, in anticipation of Nancy Drews like you or any Hardy Boys out there, I purposefully played with certain date-related aspects of my post in order to obfuscate age-specificity. I’m not slipping, I’m becoming more refined. Grrrrrrr.
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Or older. (It could happen, it could happen.)
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If you happen to know, we’re were the two or three other children born during his three-year disappearance, or after his reappearance?
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Self-reported grammar violation. Tell Stu to back off. Grrrrrrr.
I hear that things like that can potentially cause subsequent generations of offspring to get involved in untoward behavior, including and up to queenpin or kingpin level. Mostly queenpin, though. Wait, all queenpin. Grrrrrrr.
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Then how you end up with did the bad gene? Oh, wait, you probably didn’t inherit your criminal queenpin status, it’s possibly learned behavior. Grrrrrr.
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“Do you mean divorced?”
Either including a divorce or not. It need not be a marriage either, such as a bride leaving a groom at the altar to run away with someone else, or it could be a boyfriend leaving a girlfriend for someone else.
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