by Marguerite Kearns

My first husband—he presents himself as progressive and cool on gender concerns, according to his reports. He turned around my suggestion to define himself more clearly by asking me why I left husband #3 after throwing my support behind him for so long.

He didn’t expect my reply: “He treated me like a service station attendant.”

HUSBAND #1 DIDN’T LIKE MY REPLY, SO HE ANSWERED IN ANOTHER LEVEL OF TRUTH

I was only answering his questions with replying what I believed in the moment. I said that husband #3 wanted someone who had proven the ability to repeatedly get him out of jams.

Husband #1 prided himself with being gender progressive. This telephone conversation went only in one direction unfortunately. He pretended someone pounded on his door. He asked if he could call me back. I agreed, and almost two months have passed. He never called me back.

WHAT COULD I DO, BUT VIEW HUSBAND #1 AS TYPICAL, REPLIES KEARNS

I can count on never hearing from him again. The so-called progressive number #1 husband never invited me to his college graduation and more. He followed up with a statement about needing more space. And I saw that patriarchy had influenced him more than I could ever imagine.

More women like me have had the door pounding incidents happen to them at varying stages of relating the truth. You’d think we weren’t wise to this. Or, perhaps husband #1 never wanted to speak to me again.

RESPECT THE INFORMATION GATHERED, SAYS SUFFRAGE WAGON NEWS CHANNEL,  AND MOVE ON…

We can tell who qualifies as our actual friends. They call us back if they’re seriously working on themselves.

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