Blast from the Past

Facebook did it again. Periodically, Facebook displays "People You May Know." For those not familiar, it's people that Facebook has identified as someone you might know based on common acquaintances, phone numbers, or any other things on Facebook algorithm. This time, it identified what I initially thought was my ex from law school's wife. Observe: 

Complete with baby. I was disgusted initially, but happy to see him happy. He and I had always been friends. We dated, it didn't work out, and then he got engaged years later to someone else who could give him what he wanted. After his engagement, he stopped calling, and I stopped calling. It just made sense. Then I get the friend request: 

Same name, different Facebook profile picture. I was appalled. Why would she send me a friend request? I decided to go into stalker mode. I learned that the profile name was actually their baby's name. After reading some comments, I discovered that it was actually my ex using his son's name. I had to admit, the baby was pretty cute. The wife seemed like a nice person. Wasn't I supposed to be hate-mode? Nah. 

The thing is this - we didn't end on bad terms. We used to be best friends. Of all of the relationships I had, he was the one I wanted to work out most. It didn't because of one thing: religion. He was Muslim, and I was Catholic. He went out of state for medical school. I just started my first job out of law school. He wanted me to move with him and take the next step. I wanted to take the next step, too, but he wanted the next step with one condition: conversion. When I refused to convert, then we talked about how we could raise our future kids. He was adamant about blocking out Catholic teaching and making it only Muslim teaching. In religion, there was no middle ground with him. I wasn't opposed to introducing Muslim teaching, but I was adamant about including Catholic teaching. These were issues that didn't come up until our relationship hit this breaking point. Everything we had ever talked about and agreed upon had changed. When our foundation changed, the relationship crumbled. 

We didn't speak for months. I was upset because I felt like he went back on his word - he was supposed to accept me "as is," beliefs and all. There were a few other issues that were associated with a long-distance relationship that I held against him - like forgetting to call me on my birthday. Eventually, I forgave him. When he called me again to see how I was, our friendship came back. 

We stayed friends until he got engaged. We haven't spoken in two years. Here he is again, with a friend request, masquerading as a 1 year old baby. 

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