Finally caught up – that’ll teach me to go on a mini-break ever again.
Alice,
if when you’re reading here: You need to stop the pathetic, hysterical bunny boiler antics and start building an actual life for yourself. No one is going to do it for you. You are on your own. No one will live your life for you, take on your responsibilities for you, earn your money for you.
Ioan is not coming back. Not even if you were the last two people on Earth – he would rather spend the next thirty years eating fermented sheep balls and mumbling to himself in a cave hidden away in the depths of Snowdonia.
And it’s all on you – you lost his love, his friendship and his respect, not because you put on a few kilos and no longer look like you once did, but because you are an entitled, arrogant and rude excuse for a human being; you wouldn’t recognise the love and loyalty of a good man if it slapped you twice across the face. And somewhere in the back of your head, I think, you don’t even want or need it – what you want is a man acting as your servant, ATM, arm candy, janitor, cleaner, cook, driver, pool boy, porter, bodyguard, nanny, sex toy and grocery supplier.
You won’t find someone like that anytime soon, quite simply because you took yourself off the market for decent, kind and loving partners. No quality man will ever go near you after you’ve spent the last three years making a very public spectacle of yourself, your ex-husband and your children for no other reason than being dumped. You are red flags personified.
So stop. Just stop. If you want to have any of those things you seem to believe you’re entitled to, pull your head out of your ass, roll up your sleeves and go to work. Because the only things you are entitled to are the ones you actually work for.
And Ella, if you’re reading here too (which I hope you don’t): Do you honestly believe your mother is doing the right thing? That a life of bitterness, revenge and nasty little plots to harm others – especially your father – is a life worth living? Is the life
you want?
You’ve been through a lot, and you’re still going through a lot of stuff you shouldn’t have to go through. Everyone here knows that and understands it and feels for you. But the thing is – we don’t matter. The people around you do: your family (yes, you have one outside of Beverly Hills, too), your friends, classmates, teachers, future boyfriends/girlfriends, bosses and work colleagues. Everyone is cutting you slack now, and that’s how it should be. Up to a point. But someday in the not-too-far future, people will stop doing that – even many of the people who matter to you. And you need to be prepared for it.
I’m sorry to be blunt, but look closely at your mother's choices and where they have led her. She is without a family, friends and support system (yes, Gloria surely loves you girls, but at the end of the day, she is a paid employee). And she put herself in that place
by her own volition and as a consequence of her actions.
Take a moment and think hard about whether this is the future you envision for yourself.
You know, deep down, that your dad loves you and your sister more than anything in the world. Let him help you, be there for you. He wants to, and he can if you allow him to. You’re 14 years old and have a mind of your own, right? You can choose who you really want to be, and with your father's full support and professional guidance, you will eventually become that person. Good luck, Ella.
the girls will though, as they grow up and their lives expand, they’ll see her for exactly what she is.
