My personal story of breaking up in Mexico is absolutely one worth telling. I can still remember the first time I saw my now ex-husband as he walked through the door. I liked him immediately, and the attraction only grew as the evening wore on.
There was only one problem. The door he’d walked through was my friend’s, and my friend was his girlfriend. You can probably imagine the breakup: it was messy.
It was dramatic. Lies, intrigue, attempts at sweet, sweet revenge. It ran the gamut, and by the time we were “officially” together, it could have inspired a telenovela.
This was the beginning of one fairly normal relationship in Mexico, my friends. Yikes. All I can say for myself is that we were very young, and that I’d felt fate tugging at me.
Indeed, I would not have my beautiful daughter today had the moral character I thought I had turned up. Bethany Platanella’s great article a while back about dating in Mexico inspired me. Why not talk about the end of romance, too? Because in Mexico, ending things can get pretty dramatic.
I mean, humans as a species love drama and hate being blamed for things (even when they should be). But in as passionate a place as Mexico, those tendencies can get you to some pretty unexpected places! When most people enter a romantic relationship, they do so assuming that it will last for a long, long time. If we didn’t believe that, we’d never do it, after all.
The reality, of course, is that almost all romantic relationships we enter.
