Driving back from a trip my husband and I started going over our favorite 80’s music. Throwing out names of bands and singers that had been long forgotten and now where resurrected with our memories. It made me think of one of my favorite bands; Journey, and some of their greatest hits. It triggered a memory of a conversation with Coward about his first girlfriend Cindy.
One day the song, Faithfully by Journey had come on the radio while we driving and he said he hated this song. Why, I asked. “Well it was OUR song, and when Cindy cheated and left me, I couldn’t stand to hear the song any longer.” Being that I didn’t know the truth yet- of why she had left, only the Coward version of truth so I believed him. The truth was that she left you because you were abusive and a cheater told here, by her in her own words. But you couldn’t tell me that, you’d look bad and you couldn’t play the victim either. Soon after this conversation with Coward, the band Chicago came out with ,“If she would have been faithful” and this became OUR song. Coward told me that, “if Cindy hadn’t cheated, then he would have missed out on me, the best thing to ever happen to him.” Hold on for a minute I just had a hardy laugh out loud while I was typing this sentence out.
So to Coward at one point I was the best thing to EVER happen to him. He abused me physically and mentally, cheated, lied, gave me STD’s and so much more. This, was all done to the best thing that ever happened to him, makes you wonder how he treats those he doesn’t like.
