I Will Not Be Missing You

I met a woman through an online dating site, and we seemed to click right away. She was the mom of a small child, and said she was a widow. Her husband had been killed in Iraq about a year prior and she wanted to start dating again. Things went fine at first, and after a few months, we decided to have an overnight getaway at a bed and breakfast. The next morning we are outside in the garden area when two State Troopers pulled up to the B&B. She claimed she knew one of them and went over to talk to them. After about 10-15 minutes of waiting, she came back and said that we needed to leave immediately and not look at the car behind us. Come to find out, her husband wasn’t killed in Iraq. He was very much alive and had filed a missing persons report to search for his wife (and mother of his child). Our – hers and mine – relationship ended right then and there.


