my name is Sandra Holmes I am 40 years old and I have no kids from my second marriage my husband is a kind man who never misses our monthly dates no matter how busy he is he always keeps his promises I know I shouldn't compare him to my first husband but I have never regretted my divorce nor have I regretted getting remarried and this month is our e8th wedding Ann iversary my husband had reserved a table at a fancy restaurant with a view of the sea I thought we were going to have a wonderful time
but then I ran into the last person I wanted to see it was Jim Stone my ex-husband from 10 years ago we were about to leave the restaurant after finishing our meal when my husband excused himself to go to the restroom I was admiring the ocean view from the window what a beautiful view as I gazed at the sea I reminisced about the times my husband and I had spent looking at the ocean together just then I heard someone call my name and when I turned around hey what's so beautiful do you think a regular
ocean appears nice to someone like you who's pretty much broke Jim hey long time no see why are you you why I'm the one who should be asking you why Jim sat down in the chair my husband had been using looking at me as if I was a joke yes those eyes I put up with those eyes for a Whole Decade of our marriage I never thought I'd run into you here can someone like you who doesn't have much money really eat at a fancy place like this can you even afford it or are you
here for a once- in a-lifetime thing it's our wedding anniversary ah I see poor people can only come to places like this on anniversaries huh I come here often you know you're still pathetic isn't there someone with you yeah there is I just sent her to pay you know handling money is a woman's job job I thought he was still the same always belittling women ah she's back just wait there the woman who came back was his lover from 10 years ago she has aged quite a bit her beauty half what it used to be
and she looks worn out from life I guess Jim has been living it up while his wife suffers you're still wearing shabby clothes aren't you aren't you embarrassed to dress dress so poorly talking to such a terrible man like him makes me feel sick I turned my gaze toward the restroom hoping my husband would return soon and there he was he had been watching us for a while as I was talking to another man seeing the confusion on my face he approached us excuse me do you need something from my wife your wife this woman
is your wife yes what do you need you also look poor I guess poor women always remarry poor men please don't be rude my husband is a very respectable man Jim snorted in disapproval at my response hph you must be just a useless broke man then he glared at my husband I thought this man really hasn't changed at all Jim was very selfish although he worked for a major corporation it was unclear if he was competent he was good at sucking up to his boss though he blamed his mistakes on his Juniors and loudly claimed
their achievements were due to his guidance how he managed to climb the corporate ladder is beyond me but by the time we divorced he had become a manager Jim claimed he would was an elite employee but I never thought of him as Elite I graduated from a prestigious University that's what Jim would always brag about not just any University but a very different kind from the ordinary ones when I was only dating him I believed his exaggerated stories and thought he was really smart but when we got married I discovered that was his only real
talent plus he consistently degraded me even though I only completed High School your parents were too poor to send you to University right but it's good for you you didn't have the brains for it anyway if your family had been Rich you would have had to go to university but it would have been impossible for someone as stupid as you my family wasn't poor I just wanted to start working sooner rather than going to college ah enough with the excuses you can't handle not making excuses right you're an incompetent woman after all it's good for
women isn't it even if they're incompetent or stupid as long as they have good looks they can get by if they catch a competent man they can live well I never imagined he would say such things before we married so his transformation after marriage shocked me moreover his parents weren't wealthy landowners his father was just a director yet he ruthlessly looked down on anyone he considered poor you really can't do anything right you're bad at cooking you can't clean and you can't even have kids marrying you was a huge mistake it wasn't a physical issue
that prevented me from having kids it was the stress caused by Jim my family has always valued frugality and cherishing what we have but when I cooked with radish leaves to save money he yelled are you trying to feed me trash and threw them in the trash it made me realize how different we fundamentally were one day he told me he had a lover the woman was much younger than he was he pushed for a divorce saying it was better for him to remarry a younger woman I was happy to divorce such a man I
signed the divorce papers who is this man Sandra he's my ex-husband Jim Stone oh I see of course I had told my husband about everything Jim had said and done to me it had been a painful 10 years and I had shared it all with tears then without saying anything my husband just listened and finally said let's be happy from now on you really dared to marry such a woman like her since you're marrying a woman from a poor family you must be a broke guy too well maybe maybe not of course you are so
you're also a broke man huh what marrying a poor person means you're broke too am I right but why did you divorce such a wonderful person wonderful your eyes must be fooling you truly wonderful means having a beautiful wife like mine he indicated his wife as he pointed at her who stood there looking embarrassed is that woman your wife yes she's beautiful isn't she she's actually my boss's daughter marrying the boss's daughter definitely helps one climb the career ladder faster marrying a broke woman like you probably means you're just a regular employee too bad a
regular employee I haven't heard that word in years what are you trying to prove bottom tier guy marrying a bottom tier woman it just means you'll both be broke for the rest of your lives and you think you deserve to eat in such a fancy restaurant like this well this level of restaurant isn't a problem for us yeah sure if that's what you think just then a waiter passed by and my husband pulled out a black card instructing him to settle the bill Jim surprised by the Black Card tried not to show it but snort
it again is that a black card showing off a card like that here you're not used to it not used to it you must have borrowed it from someone showing off by flashing the card but later you'll have to pay back the person who lent you that card right I can imagine you're scared to Splash the cash in such a place it's all part of your act ha funny thing to say who would lend their card I wonder no matter how naive someone is they wouldn't lend their card how would you know that Jim you
shouldn't say such insulting things what's insulting I'm just stating the truth there's no way you could be wealthy if you married a poor woman like her my wife is poor you say yes that's right her folks place is a rundown one floor home you know that right or maybe you were too embarrassed to visit her home so you went to a family restaurant instead meeting her parents at a family restaurant for a marriage proposal is unheard of but for poor people like you it's probably the norm Family Restaurant huh the fact that you thought of
that means you must have done your greeting there right if you hadn't experienced it yourself you wouldn't have thought of it what are you talking about I'm not short on money I wouldn't do such a miser thing yet you came up with it I never would have thought of that right Sandra what about you well I think I'd like to go to a family restaurant occasionally but we rarely get the chance exactly what you're lying when you were with me you were happy to go to family restaurants that's because I had never really been to
one before oh I bet you sure talk big coming to such a fancy restaurant just makes you want to act all important maybe that's you it seems like you don't fit in this kind of place what you seem out of place don't you think there's no way I'm out of place you're the one who doesn't fit in here do you even know who I am why would I know you if you want me to remember you just become famous I am well known though well it's impossible for a regular employee like you to know me
I guess what I'm a manager not a regular employee manager yes how about that impressive isn't it at that moment the chauffer arrived greeted politely and informed my husband sir your car is ready thank you huh what's going on oh well you're probably just the president of some small company I work for a major corporation the homes group and I'm a manager there oh you're still just a manager excuse me you consider yourself top tier but staying as a manager at your age won't bring any advancement what what this man works at our company yes
he's been with our company for a long time what what do you mean our company you talk big but you're just an office lady from a small company that's right I don't have kids or any reason to quit my job but so you can't have kids I was right you can't have kids something's wrong with you hey hey there's a line to how rude you can be Sandra is perfectly fine if she's fine why can't she get pregnant women are supposed to have kids I don't need to explain that to you you can't say it
because it would prove there's something wrong with her this man is hopeless yes so bad it's beyond saving this man's name is jimstone yes I understand he's fired Sandra please contact HR okay what what are you saying trying to shock me with that what company's president are you thinking you can fool me with such an obvious act are you stupid Jim my husband is the president of the homes group what that can't be however the driver with a look of pity nodded as he looked at Jim what seriously is he really our president yes and
I am his wife and the vice president of our company what that's ridiculous how could Sandra from a poor family end up as vice president with just a high school diploma such things don't matter whether someone someone graduated from high school or college doesn't determine their worth uh that's ridiculous I will never forgive anyone who insults my wife that no there's a union yes there is a union the union will protect us employees you're a manager right managers are not union members so you are not protected by the union didn't you know that seriously well
you better brace yourself since you insulted my wife you must face the consequences oh no Jim had a stunned look on his face but my husband didn't care and asked me if we should go then we left the table that night perhaps bothered by the afternoon's events Jim called his attitude was completely different from his arrogance earlier Sandra it's been a while what do you mean we already had a talk this afternoon Jim ah yes what can I do for you your dismissal hasn't been issued yet ah you guys were just joking right huh what
do you mean about you being the vice president and your husband being the president no they're all true I'm surprised you don't know who your own company's President and Vice President are why would you be the vice president though because the best way I can help my husband is from the vice president's position no but it's strange why would a high school graduate be the vice president it's not strange at all I only graduated high school because I wanted to start working early but after we separated I acquired a college degree huh really yes there
are schools you can do from home so you really are the president's wife yes how did you manage to marry the president when did you get married we got married after I divorced you I met the president soon after and we dated for about 2 years before getting married married why would the president take an interest in someone like you stop being so rude oh uh sorry connections are mysterious aren't they I just happened to meet the president even so why would he marry someone broke like you is he a philanthropist no one marries for
charity if he's not a philanthropist did he marry you to make you his slave it's odd otherwise maybe today you got lucky to be taken to a fancy restaurant but usually you must be having plain poor meals right and living a difficult life where you can't even buy what you like am I right why would you think that that's not true at all you're the only one who would do such a thing there's no way you could marry such a rich man why do you think so rich people have connections with politicians and other wealthy
people if a poorly raised Woman Like You shows up at their parties it would embarrass the president or maybe he lets his mistress attend those instead you're making wild assumptions if you keep looking down on me like this you'll truly regret it I'm just concerned for you a woman with a poor upbringing like you marrying a rich man like the president will only suffer a regular employes husband would suit you better marrying someone richer than me you must be a foolish woman who can't see ahead who's the fool here if you call just to say
that I'm hanging up no wait I'm not trying to look down on you it's just true that you come from poverty that can't be helped thinking I'm looking down on you for that is completely wrong you say I come from a poor family but my father is wealthy your family is poorer than mine I didn't say it back then because of your pride your family home isn't even half the size of mine your father is just a department head and you're still just a manager that's not true when I proposed to you you were living
in a small single story house that was because we were renovating our home then we had stored all our belongings elsewhere it was just a temporary residence no need to move to a big house my mother said that can't be true you don't have to believe it but since the renovation is finished even if you say you want to visit my parents at home you've stubbornly refused to go again I couldn't tell you the truth who would visit such a poor rundown house you really are hopeless then I'll send you a picture this is my
family home you'll see from the picture the photo I sent was of a large mansion that's my house I lived there for a while after our divorce what that can't be true it's true if this is true then why were you working as an office lady in a small company if you're so rich you wouldn't need to work and if you did work wouldn't it be at a large corporation indeed my father is the president of a major company that company was a new one he started when it was time to decide who would be
the president it was decided that my brother would take the role so I volunteered to handle the administrative work now that company has advanced to the top of the industry is that true were you really so rich yes this is the truth this is the real me that you used to look down on so that's why you could marry the president that's not it I met the president because we shared the same Hobbies we met through our hobbies and hit it off he didn't know I was the daughter of a wealthy family and I didn't
know he was the president so you are at the company where I work because of that how long have you been at that company I joined the company right after our divorce I had a connection by chance why when you were with me you were a clerk at your brother's company and after we divorced you changed jobs that's right my brother's come company has grown so much and he told me it was time to do what I love so I thought I might as well pursue what I've always wanted to do then just as a
senior position became vacant they head hunted me but at that stage I still had no acquaintance with the president he was still someone high above I don't understand how can you have connections like that so rich people just connect with other rich people that's why I'm saying those things don't matter why do you think like that it's because of that mindset that you're still just a manager I wonder why your wife hasn't gotten tired of you yet she can't get tired of me I'm supporting her keep it up with that attitude and you'll get what's
coming to you anyway that's the situation so stop belittling me already I wasn't trying to belittle you I really thought you were poor about that dismissal you mentioned this afternoon oh yes your dismissal after all the mocking you did it's only natural you'd be dismissed that would make me in a tough spot can you talk to the president so I don't get fired what you were just mocking me tremendously and yet you asked not to be dismissed that's impossible you know I have nothing but resentment towards you why the fact that you don't think you're
resented is truly astonishing what have I done to you there's too much to even remember it's that much I bet your wife thinks the same as me why don't you ask her what she really thinks though I doubt she'll tell you I only said those things because I thought you were poor why do you think I'm mocking you when I'm just being honest once words are spoken they can't be taken back you know you should understand that as an adult I do understand that then you should understand why you're being dismissed right no I don't
understand at all please I'll be in trouble if I'm dismissed if it were just about this afternoon the president might have overlooked it but then you had to call and ask why this and why that my husband is here now frowning he really thinks you're hopeless maybe you should just give up there's no saving you no if the president is right there why can't you just say so it's only natural for a husband and wife to be together besides you didn't ask if someone was with me did you that's true but you've poured gasoline on
your own fire you mocked not just me but my parents and my husband too look I didn't think you'd get this angry please forgive me if I had known you were a wealthy lady I wouldn't have said such mocking things I won't say them again please forgive me just give up I think your dismissal order will come down tomorrow wait please Jim's voice echoed on the other end of the phone but I hung up and looked at my husband the next day Jim came to the president's office his face was all white with dark circles
under his eyes and he seemed to be in a really bad condition I was in a meeting with my husband the president about business matters but I was startled by Jim's appearance Jim what's wrong I'm very sorry Jim apologized as he sat down on the spot Jim what are you doing please please just don't fire me what do you mean of course the president knew about yesterday's conversation he had guessed from my responses during the call and I had detailed Jim's remarks after hanging up therefore his impression of Jim was very poor and his anger
was greater than mine I am truly sorry again I didn't know your wife was from a wealthy family I think she is a perfect match for the president's wife I also heard she graduated from University even if it was through correspondence she's a hard worker a far cry from my own wife so you decided on her as your wife and then you got rid of her right what Jim looked up at the president wondering how he knew such a thing of course I've told my husband everything we're married after all or do you and your
wife not talk about your pasts no it's not like that but that was a long time ago I was young then I thought Sandra was just a poor man's daughter so I thought it was okay to have a mistress how does it come to that is that why you think it's okay to commit sexual harassment or power harassment what do you mean don't tell me you haven't done it there are complaints from your female co-workers they say if our company doesn't handle it they'll go to the police our company was just discussing what to do
about it when your disrespectful remarks came yesterday it's really hopeless isn't it that's right I wouldn't have thought you were actually harassing or bullying but watching you yesterday it seemed all too true you don't even regard women as people do you you think they're below you no I never even if that were true firing me would be too harsh please show some mercy well indeed you have a family if you were fired you wouldn't be the only one in trouble that's right exactly my husband smirked and looked at me so what do you think Sandra
how about sending Jim to our Ohio branch wait what the Ohio branch is in a region with very few people practically unsustainable as a company the former president who came from that town established the branch there to help the local people but it's a lonely place with just one employee the previous employee reportedly went mad from the loneliness we want you to turn that Branch around in 3 years if you can do that we'll bring you back here of course if you can't you'll spend your retirement in Ohio thank you I appreciate it under the
guise of the president president's Mercy Jim set off for the Ohio branch but both myself and my husband knew it was an impossible task having to work tirelessly alone for the small number of town residents it was obvious that there wouldn't be any profit to be made unaware of this Jim moved to the branch all motivated his transfer was with his mistress who had been his wife but surely she wouldn't be satisfied with just the cold and nothing else there and eventually she reached her limit his salary plummeted and despite being the branch manager in
name his pay was minimal leading his wife to start yelling this resulted in Daily arguments and although he boasted that if he turned things around in 3 years he could return to the head office his city-bred wife couldn't believe his words she left the divorce papers and went back to the city Jim tried his best for a year but no matter how hard he worked the population wouldn't increase and no profits would come eventually he realized that no amount of effort here would change anything and one day submitted his resignation after leaving the company on
his own terms Jim contacted his wife but by then she had found someone new Jim was not only ignored by her but was beaten up by her new man and ended up in the hospital after being discharged Jim looked for a job but at his age he found nothing and life became harder for him he lived in a Shabby rundown apartment and the only job he could find was as a nighttime store clerk the man who had once boasted of graduating from a prestigious University now stood alone in a store at night as for me
I continued to be protected by my kind husband enjoying another wonderful date this month marrying him changed my life so much I'm grateful that Jim and I divorced
