Mylene* was working in Dubai when he met Dante*. They became friends and eventually became lovers. Together they planned for the life they will have once they get married and finally start anew. Mylene was happy and Dante seems to feel the same way. And so the wedding was set and they decided to tell their families about it starting with Mylene’s sister, Gia.
But the meeting was a big mistake as Dante fell in love with Gia the moment he met her. And the worst part? Gia felt the same way. Mylene was devastated. How could her fiancé and her older sister do that to her. She came home here in Philippines and told her family what happened, calling her sister all the bad names she could think of and kept her distance as far away from them as possible.
Every time we met, she had something bad to say about her sister. It seems like she was never going to get over the whole thing. But eventually, she did. She met the right guy for her and Dante became just a part of her past as he really was. When she got married, her relationship with her sister improved, though she still called her ‘names’, she no longer kept her distance nor shut Gia out of her life.
What she discovered, however, shocked her more than she wanted. Dante, it seems, was an abusive husband. Though he never hurt Gia physically, he never treated her as an equal. He treated her more like a servant. Gia never did anything right. She was, for Dante, a pretty doormat.
For Mylene, she felt glad that Dante didn’t choose her, and for Gia, she thinks her older sister deserved it for stealing somebody else’s fiancé.
I can understand Mylene for getting hurt over what happened, what I don’t understand was her behavior toward her sister. Because if I were she, I would be sad about Dante’s treatment to Gia, as nobody deserves such treatment.
Maybe I’m just a little soft compared to Mylene, unless Mylene is really 'mean’ as I sometimes consider her to be.. :(
*Not real names
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