Walking the Walk

He told me he walked with her occasionally to placate her and keep the peace. He said they had nothing in common and there were very few things they did and it was easier to just go along so he could do what he wanted afterwards. He said it was humiliating and he felt the neighbors saw him as a weak guy doing penance. 

But after his newfound manifestation of reality, there he was walking side by side every day. And now he was walking out by the main street in town, the one I have to drive on every day, and as a special treat, even walking together to the shopping center, things he never would have done while he was still using me, heaven forbid he show the same restraint after destroying my life.

We use to talk about there being two types of couples who walked together, the ones who looked connected and enjoying each other and the ones where the man looked obedient and detached often walking a few paces behind. Guess which one he is.

It doesn't matter to whom he was lying. It was me and the rest of the world he was lying to? That's fine, the point is he is a man with no self respect, who's word is meaningless. He can give his word, I'll do this, I'll do that, but what makes a man is when his words and his actions resonate his true beliefs. Sadly, something he seems incapable of doing.