It’s amazing how quickly the love of your life, the guy you can’t wait to spend the rest of your life with that you so endearingly call your S.O. can turn around and become a worthless S.O.B.

And men say women change.

If someone had looked into my future and told me how my early twenties would play out – that I’d stay in a miserable relationship with a guy who wasn’t at all right for me, that I’d be unhappily married at 26, separated, divorced and living the single life by 27, I’m not sure I would’ve believed them.

As a child I had always dreamt about what my future would look like. I pictured myself at 24 – it would be the year 2000 and it seemed a million years away. Of course, when you’re 10, everything seems to be a lifetime into the future. I pictured myself tall – I blame my parents for putting such thoughts in my head – they were always saying how I’d grow up to be this tall, successful beautiful blond.

They had the blonde part right at least. And so buying into their vision for my adult life, I thought I’d be a lawyer living just outside a city somewhere on a little farm with an apple orchard, and everyday I’d drive my silver porche to work with the top down and my dog would ride shotgun.

And every night, I’d meet up with the most handsome, hunky, intelligent, wonderful man, and we would dine in the nicest restaurants, indulge in fabulous cocktails, get lost in each other’s eyes, and be the center of attention wherever we were, because we were that fabulous, that much in love, and were the couple that everyone wanted to be.

But my point is that my life is nothing the way I pictured it. I should have picked up on that when I hit 5’5 in highschool and stopped growing, that perhaps, maybe those other things might not work out quite as I imagined either. What I’m saying is the fact that my marriage didn’t turn out the way I imagined, shouldn’t have come as a surprise either.

But it did. It through me for a loop, left me completely discombobulated and confused. All around me, my friends were happily getting engaged, getting married, getting pregnant, and there I was, getting single...