The Edge of Reason

In the Bridget Jones sequel, The Edge of Reason, Bridget bad mouths her ex Mark Darcy to fellow inmates in a prison in Thailand and then experiences an epiphany.
He treat you bad?

Yeah, actually, he did.

My boyfriend treat me bad too.

- Me too.
- [girl] Mine as well.

[girl] Me too.

Then you know all about it.
You think you've found the right man, but then there's so much wrong with him and he finds there's so much wrong with you and it all just falls apart.

Don't tell me. My boyfriend, he seem really nice. Then he start to hit me.
Make me work on street.

My boyfriend, he say he love me.
But he do no work,
and make me work hour a day.

Then he make me take heroin drug.
What about you, Bijjit?
What your bad boyfriend do?

Well, er,......he really didn't stick up for me
at this lawyers' supper,...

and, um, then he would fold his...
[chuckles]

Oh, same sort of thing, really.
Hitting me and making me take drugs.
Stealing all my money and stuff.

[Bridget] Oh, God.
I've been the world's biggest fool.

As Have I. Pining away for men who, if they yielded, would quickly be transformed from the object of my affection to the bane of my existence. Yesterday, I had a serious meltdown at work. After an acerbic email exchange, I went to the bathroom and sobbed. The red eyes and puffy cheeks were blamed on allergies which my coworkers believed because I'm usually pretty open with what's happening in my life. In this case, I was so perplexed by the waterworks, I couldn't explain it to myself much less others. I pulled it together just in time to go visit the Yenta from Hell.

That's in the next post. Yet another thread pulled in the sweater of my existence.