My Husband Deleted An Invitation To Taylor Swift’s Wedding. We Are Not Living In The Same Reality.
My Husband Deleted An Invitation To Taylor Swift’s Wedding. We Are Not Living In The Same Reality.
“WHAT!?” I asked in total disbelief.
“Wait, why weren’t we invited? There are a thousand people there!” I asked my husband Garret, a well-known music producer in LA.
I scrolled on Instagram as we talked, watching the celebrities roll into Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding at Madison Square Garden.
“I got a text but I thought it was spam,” he told me, sounding defensive.
“WHAT!?” I asked in total disbelief.
I could feel my heart pulsing in my fingertips as I continued to scroll through the barrage of wedding-related posts popping up online.
“Yeah – remember I told you I got a text from her manager? But I didn’t respond to it. It didn’t sound like him.”
“It was probably an assistant!” I scolded him, my frustration growing by the second.
“Oh,” Garret said, seemingly apologetic.
We’ve been married for 32 years and have lived in the same house all of that time, but apparently we occupy two different worlds.
As a psychotherapist with over a decade of experience in marriage and family therapy, I’ve seen my fair share of women who say their husbands don’t understand them. At that moment, I could relate on an entirely new level.
“So let me get this straight: You mean to tell me that we were invited… and you didn’t click on the invite?” I asked.
“Yeah,” he shrugged. “I guess I thought someone was trying to hack my address book or something.”
Reeling in frustration, I left the room. My jaw was clenched tight, so I purposefully took a deep breath and let it out slowly.
I thought back to 2012, when my husband worked with Swift on........
