She wasn’t fair to him Tina was married to her job, and in the end it was the job that had finally ended their marriage, even though Henry cheated on her with his secretary Tina still felt a huge pang of guilt, Henry had wanted a wife someone to grow old with someone to have kids with a partner. Tina realized after their first year of marriage that was something she couldn’t provide Henry. Tina loved being in the thick of things, and she really didn’t see kids in her near future, it wouldn’t be fair to them, and the wife Henry wanted well she just never fit in that one picture,  she had worked too hard to get where she was, truth be told Henry was threatened by her success she was more alpha than him, confident, secure and made more money, Henry was too old fashion too traditional he grew up in home where the man was the boss, and the bread winner, and the wife stayed home cooked, cleaned and took care of the kids, Tina didn’t mind cooking and cleaning in fact she was a very good cook and was very tidy she just didn’t want to live the rest of her adult life as a “WIFE” not that was anything wrong with that but Tina had worked hard to get where she was and was not ready to give it up .  Tina was only 32 and she felt there was still more she needed to accomplish before she could even consider having a family.

The ending was bitter sweet, her friends told her she was much too generous with the divorce settlement, being that she was the one with all the money, Henry signed a pre-nuptial agreement so really he was only entitled on a small  agreed upon amount of her money, in the end he tried to get more, which her lawyers made sure he didn’t get, he also wanted the house they had shared, and even though she owned it prior to their being married she decided to let him have it,  she loved that house it was one of the first properties she had owned but in the end she just wanted things to be over and done with so she had given in.

She always wanted to live in her beach house, giving him the house finally gave her the push she need to finally move, she loved spending any of her spare time there, Henry never liked the ocean he hated the sand, so it was a place she often visited alone, she had a very nice 4,000 sq ft home overlooking the ocean in a very nice secluded area of Corona Del Mar, it wasn’t as  exclusive as the area of Malibu,  that was  one of the reasons she had choose it, the area was quieter and much more private than the upscale Malibu area.

She had all of her things moved to her beach house this last week, she still remembered the last conversation she had with Henry, he wanted her back he told her how sorry he was, how alone he had felt how she spent too much time at work and not enough time with him, but he loved her still and wanted to try to make it work. Tina remembered the look on his face when she had told him she didn’t want the things he wanted, she wanted to try and be friends with him, she didn’t love him the way he loved her. She didn’t know if she could forgive his infidelity she understood why he had done what he had done, but it wasn’t something she could easily get over.

It was over and she was relieved, she felt free like a weight had been lifted off her shoulders.

She was seriously in need of a vacation and after she made sure things were underway in New York she was going plan a week away from the office.