Has anyone ever given you a second chance?

My brother let me stay with him and his husband for a year and a half while I was fighting depression. I was the classic annoying brother-in-law. It might have worked out OK for 6 months or maybe 12. But I overstayed. They kicked me out. It was the right decision.

We were at arm’s length for about a year afterwards.

We got together for the holidays last Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was nice to reconnect. It was comfortable. We erased the friction.

During a time filled with stress and family conflict, I began making a lot of mistakes at work. My job required zero mistakes, and I was screwing up daily. After getting my work truck towed out of the sand dunes, my boss took me aside and told me I was messing up. He told me to fight whatever was going on, and find my footing again. I did.

My job is corporate, so I was laid off during a mass situation. I git a call a month later they didn’t realize what I actually did and rehired me.

^^That’s more like “we screwed up” than a second chance.

I was given a second chance by a prosecutor, when I was fifteen, or sixteen.
In my teens I was a bit naughty, but after that preach I decided that it was enough, and from that moment on I’m father Teresus.

@Blackwater Either way, it worked out.

In a way, I guess. Even a third and fourth chance. An old girlfriend of mine wanted to get married, but I just wasn’t up for it. She got herself preggers by another guy and was forced to marry him by her parents. We still stayed in touch but when she would call it was always the same thing, her hubby was an ass, she didn’t love him. blah blah. She finally divorced him and started calling me again. I still wasn’t up for it. She eventually married again, and my only thought was plop plop, fiz fiz, oh what a relief that is. Another A hole, another divorce. she started trying to pressure me again. But have you ever loved a woman, but just not wanted a steady diet of her? Thats how it was for me. Eventually lost contact with her, she got word to me thru a mutual friend that she was tired of waiting for me and wasn’t giving me another chance. Never asked for another chance in the first place. Makle your dang marriage work woman! So that’s my story. Might look her up on Face Book sometime and see how she’s doing. Now that I’m married myself, and safe. LOL

Yes and I have both, failed and overachieved some of those second chances.