I'll Stand By You - The Pretenders

N bumped into her ex-colleague this weekend at the gym. In fact, both of us have been bumping into him a lot lately at the newly opened Curve. But the interesting thing is, we have been spotting him alone. You see, Mr.A, is a CEO of a medium sized company. Drives a 5 ( or is it 6) series Beemer, recently married to a (young) gorgeous Pan Asian girl and lives in a nice house.
Their marriage was the stuff made in heaven; ceremony was done overseas, the wife is a glamourous type, one you would see gracing magazine covers. Both of them can be spotted doing everything, going everywhere, together.

But lately he's going everywhere alone. So N asked him about his wife.

"I'm single now in Malaysia. She's back in ******. I told her to stay there for the meantime."

If you get the impression that they are now divorced, they're not. Times are hard for Mr A as his company is seeing diminishing projects and profits. Money is not rolling in as fast as it used to and last I heard he was being sued by his ex partner. So eventually he asked his wife to go back where she's originally from to find work because he's worried he can't support their current lifestyle at the moment. I feel sorry for him and I hope things do work out for him.
And I hope this couple can transcend above material needs and go through this bad phase together.

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I was at KLCC the other day and bumped into an ex-colleague. At lunch, this ex-colleague of mine was telling me a story about her brother, whom she was living with. Apparently, her brother is going through a tough time, having recently went through a very bad divorce and had his child taken away from him. Wife was a foreigner from a neighbouring country, they got married there while he was on a business trip and was still a successful businessman. In other words, they were living large, good money, good house, expensive taste...the works. But business has since gone down and this brother of hers found herself having to come back to Malaysia to find a job, while the wife and child stayed on. Soon after, the wife said she had enough of uncertainty and wanted out. and the child too.

He's going through depression at the moment and this ex colleague of mine is rather worried of the mental state of his brother.


what about you?would you stand by your man/woman throughout the darkest of days?

would you?