Hindsight
I admit I was a casualty of your new addition
as you engineered your life into its new rendition.
How could I not have known that there would be a repetition
of the mess you left behind in our love’s fruition?
You drew me like a magnet. I was brazen, cruel and bold.
Reveling in the heat of you, I overlooked the cold
wasteland that you left behind—family, wife and kids—
our new life an adventure that left their lives in the skids.
Now the present situation repeats what once was,
with me the one who’s left behind. Most fitting, though, because
I saw the whole thing once before in a rear vision mirror
as you put the car we fled in into a higher gear.
Prompt words today are brazen, repetition, casualty and magnet.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
They say that people who have the ability to just walk away will continue to be the type to always walk away without caring.
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Payback is hell, I am told, Judy. I watched this happen to a good friend, and I found it hard to feel sorry for her.
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Once a jerk, always a jerk, said a very wise Rabbi friend, who was called upon to advise in a similar situation.
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One indication of problematic behaviour I taught on a training course was “they have done it before”
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Yes. Much as we’d like to give someone the benefit of the doubt and believe they have changed, it is not often that this seems to be true.
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