Being Neglectful

I believe I'm falling for the old trap, the "I've got a nice new girlfriend, so I'm all over what my horrid old girlfriend did to me" bit.  I don't think about Leah all that much.  Things have been going well with Jen.

Jen was apprehensive about meeting my kids, but she did eventually meet them.  And she was won over by them.  The kids really like her as well.  How much do they like her?  In April, Jen was going to go to visit some friends in Ohio.  That wound up falling through, so she was "available".  I came up with an insane idea: the boys and I took a bus up to New York City and spent the weekend with her.  Oh, by the way, we went to see "Phantom of the Opera" on Broadway.  The weekend went amazingly well, to put it mildly! 

I thought back to some of my lovers.  Maryann was going to move in with me and we were all going to be a family.  That's how she spoke, but she never followed through.  Joni made promise after promise to the kids, but they were all lies.  Heck, she never even took my younger son fishing!  Leah made smaller scale promises -- teaching my younger son to cook, for example -- but she never followed through.  Jen promised to take my kids to a Broadway show, and she kept her promise.  I think this might be a first for us! 

This weekend, I'm heading up to New York City again.  On Friday night, I'll be watching Jen perform.  On Saturday, we will be spending the whole day at an SCA event (Jen's first SCA event).  Unfortunately, I'll be leaving early on Sunday, in order to get back in time for "42nd Street" rehearsal.  We might be spending the next few weeks apart, which is always difficult for us.  Jen has the summers off work (she's a teacher), so she promises to visit so much that I'll be sick of her!  My only issue with that?  I can only imagine that New York City is a little more interesting than some suburb of Philadelphia!  Maybe we would rather be "there" than have her "here"!