Real-Life Drama You Couldn’t Make Up

We binge mystery thrillers for the drama, suspense, and shocking endings—but real life? It’s got juicier plot twists, worse decisions, and way fewer commercial breaks. We’ll watch a mystery thriller on our TV wondering how it is going to turn out. The story’s writer’s did a great job in holding us in suspense. We’re not sure what will happen. When we go to bed we may have trouble falling asleep because the ending was exciting and worse, if it didn’t end the way we wanted it to. What we don’t think about is that the mysteries or drama shows we watch are happening all the time all around us. I knew a guy who had been married (notice the past tense) for twenty-five years. He confided in my that he was having an affair. Then he proceeds to tell me with whom he is having an affair. I knew all three people. I didn’t need to read a book to see how this was going to end. Well, he ends up divorcing his wife and he marries the younger woman with whom he was having an affair. He tells me that when he dies both women will be by his bedside each holding one of his hands (talk about narcissism and ego). He did die and no, both women were not holding his hand we he died. Not too much suspense there. The only suspense was how much his first wife was going to get in the divorce settlement. She was the only winner in this story. She unloaded his sorry butt and made him pay.