A new love, but at a distanceįor a long time, the relationship with Carlos was virtual. While she was still married, they began to plan what would be the first face-to-face meeting to be able to capture live all that love that they promised each other from a distance. Until that afternoon she saw that photo of her on Facebook, the trigger that generated intrigue and curiosity about what was happening beyond the four walls in which she lived. And although several times he thought about the possibility of asking for a divorce, the lack of economic independence prevented him from being able to get away from that toxic life that she led. Verónica says that almost from the beginning of the relationship, the father of her children exerted physical and psychological violence on her through blows, insults, contempt, and disqualifications. I had a violent and unhappy relationship for pretending “. He was with my husband for fear of being alone and of failure. He never kissed me, only when he was drunk or high. There were very few displays of affection. In this way, she defines her, she began to go through a very sad, bitter and monotonous stage of her life. I had felt the need to help him.”.īut shortly after getting married, Veronica began to realize that this man was not what he had promised her, but quite the opposite. “I had been seduced by my husband’s physical beauty and that he was very humble. The main obstacle was that she had been married for 32 years to the father of her three children. But the distance was not the most important impediment when it came to realizing the desire to go one step further. On the one hand, Carlos lived in Río Negro and she in the province of Buenos Aires. Those private chats on WhatsApp to Verónica generated a lot of desire and anxiety to move on to a second level: the face-to-face meeting. When we resumed the dialogue, I was captivated by his intelligence, his sensitivity and his attention to me”, Veronica recalls. “That way I began to talk privately with Carlos, who was in the other course, but who had always seemed like a very nice boy. So, Erica invited her to be part of a WhatsApp group made up of several of those boys and girls who were already adults. A simple question: how was that reunion?Īt that moment, she says, it occurred to her to ask her friend what she knew about the lives of those friends whom she had not seen for more than 30 years. In 2018, a friend of Verónica Diaz (51), Erica, uploaded to Facebook a photo of a group reunion between former classmates from elementary school of which she had not been a part, but discovered someone who led her to be interested in what had happened. It was heartbreaking to get home and have to pretend everything was okay.”
I never wanted to be separated from Carlos again. I felt that I wanted to share my life with him and no longer suffer from an empty marriage. I felt that he was everything I had looked for and hoped for years. The truth is that I returned home very sad. My husband didn’t kiss me, so for me it was glorious.