Watching the Today Show

Watching The Today Show With My Wife Part 1

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Author's Notes: These are my stories and no one has my permission to use them. This story is about how I found myself single.

We had the habit on Friday mornings having coffee with some yogurt in bed watching the Today show. I worked four tens and she had been a stay at home mom for our three kids.

I worked from home, had my own single person business, an economic consulting business. I worked for banks mostly now helping them work through troublesome commercial loans mostly with companies owned by rich people who felt they didn't have to pay the loans back, nor have it reflect on their poor business practices.

Bankers usually suggested that the guy fire everyone. I'd learned that you had to focus on inventory and products that actually sold. Dump the ones that didn't sell, but well let's get back to the Today show.

There were two hosts, plus skinny Al Roker. One lady was in her late fifties Hoda something and the other was forty or so and the daughter of the lesser Bush.

Hannah thought she was the speaker for pre-MILF women. Totally Chi-Chi, spends way too much on the clothes, jewelry and shoes, she was forty and Hannah was forty eight. I though she only in the job because of her daddy and pretentious self.

Out of nowhere, she starts talking to the older host, "Jenna Bush Hager has opened up about how she regrets not dating more people before she fell in love with her husband, Henry Hager, and got married."

"The Today star looked back on her dating history on Tuesday's show while chatting with Hoda Kotb about Olivia Rodrigo's new song, Bad Idea Right?, which is about hooking up with an ex."

"I've said this before and I'll say it again. You don't need to go back to the ex just to not date somebody else," she told her co-host.

"Date as many people as you can!' she advised the audience. 'Because one day you won't be dating anymore."

"You sound frustrated,' Kotb joked."

"I'm not frustrated," she insisted. "Just nobody told me that, and I wish somebody had. So I tell you, date as many people as you can. Don't go back to the loser.' (I thought that was code for fuck as many people as you can)

Bush Hager met Henry while he was working on her father George W. Bush's 2004 presidential reelection campaign, and she almost instantly fell in love.

"I proposed to Henry after several cocktails," she recently shared on the Today show.

"I was 22 years old, my sister was standing with us, we were dancing and Barbara just started shuffling backwards. She was like, 'What is happening here?' she recalled.

"We'd only been dating three months. He told me he loved me and I'm like, "Me too! Let's get married!"

Bush Hager admitted that Henry refused her spontaneous proposal, but they got married five years later.

Hannah was hot while the Today show host was plain, with a flat face.

I said to Hannah, "Do you want some more coffee?"

She didn't hear me.

I turned my face towards her and stared at her for the longest time. She slid out of bed and without acknowledging me and went in and took a shower. About five minutes in I got up turned the tv off and decided I'd join her. The door to the bathroom was locked, so I got some sweats on and took off in my 1965 Chevrolet Suburban. I had a rebuilt GMC 361 straight six with a four speed manual. Manual locking hubs for when it snows.

I turned my phone off and put in the glove box. We lived in Indianola, Washington in Kitsap County. We had three mostly grown kids Jack, Pete and Kendall. They played sports, Kendall was known as the town pump as long as you were queer.

She was a beautiful girl, but loved other girls. She got kicked out of Washington State University for having an affair with a married professor the mother of three kids. Jack and Pete were playing college baseball. Jack at Long Beach State (Dirtbags) and Pete was playing for perennial NAIA champion Lewis and Clark state in Lewiston, Idaho.

I drove up to Kingston Junior high school and ran four miles on the old cinder track. Not hard intervals really eight and half minute laps which took me two and a half hours. I knew she would be gone if I went home. I was dripping wet.

I fired up my rig, rolled down the windows in the front seat. I turn on and listened to alt rock station KEXP and they were playing Jelly Roll's song "Save Me" and I took the back way to the Indianola Country Store. I rolled in there about ten minutes later, it was just before noon, I got in line and ordered breakfast and dinner. Breakfast was three breakfast sandwiches built on an English muffin, pork sausage patty fried egg and lots of peanut butter. Dinner was two bologna sandwiches on pumpernickel rye, double bologna, cheddar cheese, horseradish yellow mustard and slices of butter pickles.

I chatted with Randy and Tina the son and daughter of my old friends who had retired five years ago. Soon everything was ready and I turned to go and it was Rob their dad and he grabbed my arm and said, "She's been at his house with his new wife. We've seen her there off and on for a month."

I sighed and said, "I'm done."

I went home and ate my breakfast sandwiches with most of a pot of coffee. I took a shower and pulled on some cut off sweats and a sweat shirt and got out an old novel by W.E.B. Griffin about the fight at Guadalcanal with the Marine Corp and Navy in August of 1942, just eight months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. As a WWII junkie it was correct as to what happened with all the intrigue involved with the United States Marine Corp and Evans Carlson.

I got lost in it, which is what I wanted to happen and at eight o'clock I got my bologna sandwiches out and buttered up the bread on the outside and fired up the larger burner on the gas range. I put a cast iron pan on and threw some more butter in the pan and let it turn brown and put both sandwiches in and put another pan on top of the sandwiches with a thirty two ounce can of tomatoes to weigh it down. I got a plate out and a Bodhisattva IPA. At three minutes I took the pan off the sandwiches and flipped them a spatula and table knife and put the pan back on top.

I turned the burner off, because the pan would retain the heat and I did not want to burn them. They were good and I took my time. I added some Fritos and ate slowly.

Hannah's first husband had left her and disappeared when he caught her cheating and CPS took her kids away as she had spiraled into prostitution and drugs.

Last summer, she had all this therapy and was still going to the therapist, supposedly she was a sexual addict. I was invited to her current therapy two years ago and the guy says, "Hannah is making so much progress and you're reaping all the rewards,

"Why on earth was he bullshitting me?

I smiled at him and said, "Can you give me five minutes, just me and you, "I smiled at Hannah and said, "Okay Honeybunch?"

She nodded yes and I saw her look at the therapist and nod again. She was fucking this guy, we had three young kids and I was not getting laid at all and she told me it was due to depression. I'm plenty big, thick and eight inches, but I knew he was bigger.

I did not take the depression remark as gospel.

Hannah left the room and I jerked my head towards him as I walked towards the other side of the room. I touched my lips with my finger hinting to be quiet and lured him on with my head and he got off his chair and walked towards the far wall.

When I was standing next to him I pivoted towards him and drove my fist into his nuts in a power uppercut. He stood there shaking and I grabbed his pants and pulled them down to his knees and sure enough, there was this pink, thick snake with an uncut head, almost twice as long as me and thicker. I put my lips next to his ear and said "Email her tomorrow and suggest that you think she's able to move on from counselling at this point. Are we clear?"

"If you insist on fucking her some more one way or another I'll get texts, maybe even some video. I still might do this. I know you have ethical standards you must uphold and you're a psychiatrist and a doctor, girlfriend or wife or both, fucking shame to lose your life for a skank like her, right?"

A few weeks later and she had not returned and I said fuck this to myself. I had been talking to myself quite a bit lately. I called up Ted Lerner a guy that had been involved with professionally as I was in the turn around business for failing companies, sometimes you need a guy that could find out shit.

He was a lawyer in good standing. He'd grown tired of the whole thing, building up a whole backlog of cases and billable hours and gradually built up a related firm that involved investigating principles in firms. Not a lot of divorce work really, Occasionally as part of a deal that was stuck, mostly due to some guy who chased and had screwed up a big deal by doing so.

I wanted something with a different route, but more of a scorched earth end point and a divorce. I gave them the name of the couple in Indianola, plus the psychiatrist from the year before. I thought the couple might be swingers and she had finagled a way to get a male partner to pretend to be her boyfriend or husband. Then destroy those people and divorce her and rub her face in it.

He asked for budget. I gave him a check for $20,000 and asked if this was enough to get started. He nodded yes.

I had been talking to myself a lot, as I mentioned before. I could not figure out why she was doing this. Our kids were grown. Nothing had happened until about three years ago and I caught her and she said she loved me and was sorry and depressed and an addict and whatever else she could think to get me to show a glint of empathy and sense that I wasn't going to dump her.

My biggest problem is that I loved her, still. I had concluded that was a very unhealthy state of mind for me as I utterly doubted that she loved me much at all. I wondered if she had ever loved me. I decided as working theorem that she did not and I should act as if she did not and prepare for a life without her. My business and the house both were premarital assets and I used a trust set up by uncle and I was the only surviving member. I moved the business and the house into the trust via sale from me to the trust for one hundred dollars. I received a paycheck to live on from the trust as well as business expenses.

At this point it had almost two months and I had not received a call from Hanna, nor had she come back for clothes or anything else. Kendall reached out to me and said she wanted to talk to me.

I assumed she had spoken with her mother and did not respond as I figured out how I wanted this to go. She said, "Dad are you there?"

I said, "Kendall can you and the boys come over on Sunday and we can talk face to face?"

She said, "Sure what time?"

"How about one o'clock. I got three cohos I caught yesterday in the freezer and I'll cook them up."

She said, "Okay, it'll be good to see you."

"Bye honey, " and we both hung up.

It was Wednesday.

I had not read much of Lerner. It was much deeper than I thought and I owed him another $15,000. There were videos with her and the local couple and with the psychiatrist and then the biggest shocker is that she'd met an Indian guy who worked for the big software company in Redmond, he was an older guy and was a billionaire and they were caught talking about marriage in several restaurants and what was the best way to get out of my marriage with my assets in her hands.

She said that she fell out of love with me shortly after our kids were born and admitted to four major affairs and literally hundreds of hookups and had several instances of STDs.

I texted Ted and asked if we could talk. Thirty seconds later my phone rang and it was Ted.

"I obviously need to get tested as my first step, " I started, "And then to file right, beat them to the punch, plus my kids are coming over to bullshit me about her this Sunday."

He said, "No I don't think so and I have an idea. I think you should tell your kids, that she abandoned you and you have a new case your working in South Korea, which is true and it ties back to Vancouver, Canada as well as Kelowna. Apples and seafood agribusiness. Dirty younger son in Seoul and parents and brothers in British Columbia. Leave on Monday, I'll get the tickets and accommodations. You must change the locks on your home and install security."

"I did all of that, "I said.

"Let me finish, he said, "Why don't you sell this house, does it mean anything to you?"

I shook my head no.

I can get this sold through Paragon Real Estate advisors, your old friends Saint and Dave. Without listing it they have a book of clients that will do it and they will finesse the listing and closing without signs in a month while you're overseas."

I said, "I want my truck stored do you know any place?"

He said, "You can store it here. That makes the back cover all that much better. Go see a doctor today."

I got in to see my doctor at Sound medical and by the end of the day I had Chlamydia but not gonorrhea or syphilis. HIV might take a while. It seems that some times it does not present in men with pain or any symptoms like the other two. I had some scaring in my urethra which she attributed to the fact that I'd had this for some time.

She had doxycycline from vendors and gave me three weeks of them. The capsules looked like vitamins and I would put in the vitamin bottle when I travelled. I took two today.

I moved money around, finally shut off Hannah's phone and our kids as well. Sent a note to all of our credit card companies that I was leaving the country and disavowed any debts of my soon to be ex-wife.

I took some time editing the dialogue about constantly cheating and added in that she had two other adult kids that she had lost touch with as well and then two minutes of her fucking men and women both.

Sunday morning I was ready to go, the flight to Seoul would leave at eleven forty five in the morning and I decided that I'd just give them the frozen fish and ice cream in the freezer, milk etc. I drove up to Kingston at a quarter to twelve to the subway sandwich shop and bought six foot long sandwiches; two cold cut combos with cheddar, two meatball subs with mozzarella, parmesan and pickled jalapenos and lastly two tuna fish subs with onions, spinach, jack cheese and all of them toasted so the cheese melted. I ran into the grocery store next door and bought a half a case of diet coke and two bags of ruffles potato chips.

I pulled into my home and brought the food in and got some paper plates out and some glasses and put some ice cubes in a steel bowl.

The security alarm dinged because they were at the front door. I walked over and let them in. Kendall said, "My key doesn't work."

I said, "I'll explain after we eat, okay?"

She shrugged and said, "Sure."

Everything was laid out on the middle island. I cut the subs in half and took half a meatball and whole cold cut and a bunch of ruffles and a pop and went over to the slider, and out side to sit on the deck, and they all followed me.

Jack said, "I thought we were going to have salmon."

I responded and said, "I've been rushed as I have a new case in South Korea, probably the biggest ever and I fly out in the morning, so you can bring the salmon and the ice cream home tonight."

Kendall said, "We need to talk to you about something Dad, regarding Mom."

I interrupted her and said, "Nope. I have not spoke to your mom in months and I took it upon myself to understand why she abandoned me. After we talk I will show you what I know. This is about saying goodbye to all of you. I love you with all my heart and tried to be the best dad I could be. Fed you, provided you a home."

"Maybe I was harsh sometimes, but all I ever wanted was for you to be save. I realized it was over and have to get on with my life. It is a terrible thing for you to come to me as your mom's go between. She can talk to my lawyer with her attorney. I'm leaving and have no idea when I'm coming back. I'm forty nine and still think I have some life in me."

I started crying and couldn't stop. I stood up and went inside and ran some water and wetted a paper towel. I went back outside and sat down and started eating and nobody said anything. When everyone had stopped eating, I said come inside now I have something to show you, in the family room where there was a big flatscreen that I'd hooked my laptop too and said, "This is ugly but it is what it is."

I hit go and there was Hannah in restaurants and hotel rooms saying how she'd hooked up with other men and women our whole marriage and justified it by saying she didn't love me, which was about two minutes, then there a minute of porn, men and women, fucking her. Included into the audio fun was all about the STDs. I concluded that I'd had long term Chlamydia which didn't present and I'm on antibiotics and hopefully in six months I'll know that I don't have HIV. I went into the kitchen and got the salmon out and two tubs of central market chocolate ice cream and a gallon of whole milk onto the Island. Pete was out on the deck weeping and Jack was patting his back.

Kendall came in said, "What about Mom's clothes and jewelry?"

I gave it all to fishline the local charity for out of work and homeless people, including both of her wedding rings along with mine. She didn't need it. I burned the wedding pictures, her photo albums and her wedding dress."

"Kendall I've not taken the step to get paternity tests, but I suspect that I may not be your biological dad. I mean all of you. Nonetheless, I do love you all. I can't imagine a more cruel human than your mother."

"I think you might know about the paternity than I do and she looked away, which confirmed that she did and likely as not they were not my kids."

"I turned off your phone plan, you should be able to connect to a new carrier.

End Watching The Today Show With My Wife Part 1

Part two a new life in Seoul coming soon.