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"I came across a poll that CNN is conducting over the weekend. They want to know if you&amp;#039;ve ever been dumped (or dumped someone) while in a restaurant. Apparently, it happens all the time, and waiters are used to it. My heartache dinner with Peter wasn&amp;#039;t a breakup, so to speak. It was more like an ambush. It was over a year ago, at a time when I was trying to discuss tibdits of potential plans for our separation. Peter was shutting me down at every turn. It was maddening in the extreme, and so very like him. I&amp;#039;m sure he felt we&amp;#039;d discuss things whenever he felt like we were ready, and not before. He had another think coming. On our wedding anniversary, I arranged for a local teenager to come sit with the kids, and I told Peter we were going out. He looked surprised, but went along. I wonder if he thought I was trying to win him back? Whatever he thought, he was more than shocked when we ordered our food, and then I turned to him very calmly and said &amp;quot;We need to talk logistics. I have nothing to celebrate today. It&amp;#039;s my un-niversary. Now, how are we moving forward? And when are you planning on leaving?&amp;quot; He literally turned his back to me, and bit out monosyllabic answers over his shoulder for the next twenty minutes or so before I finally decided I was getting nowhere. I stood up and I told him I deserved the respect of an honest conversation, if for no other reason than I am the mother of his children and I shared his life for more than two decades. He looked mortified and uncomfortable as everyone at the tables around us looked on. Then I turned on my heel, head held high, and walked out the front door to the car, before our food was even delivered. He got it boxed to go, I guess, and paid the bill. When he arrived at the car, I was drying my face so he couldn&amp;#039;t see I had been sobbing. We drove home in complete silence. Several months later, we finally had that conversation. When he was ready, of course. I haven&amp;#039;t gone back to that restaurant again. I&amp;#039;m not sure I ever will. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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