This OS illustrates the saying: "Life is not fair, get used to it!" so brilliantly. The manner in which you describe the unpredictability and the suddenness of the changes happening is so astounding. The domino effect of each of these changes is so vividly clear to us and yet unexplainable as to why they are happening.
Where is the justice in all this? She put herself second to further her husband's career, was a supportive and encouraging wife during all those three years. And when the accident happened she lost all. The most tragic thing is that she lost the chance to come to terms with the abruptness and the injustice of the aftermath events. The callousness of how easily she was discarded sliced her and it stopped her from finding a way out of it.
Could her husband behave better? Yes! Nonetheless, that is not the point. We are responsible for our own behaviour and we can not make anyone behave as we like, despite how right we are. Maybe the loss of memory heightened the fact that was not true love that they shared. He doesn't remember her, but he still connects to his old friends. Is that why he didn't allow her a new chance at trying to be husband and wife? We won't know, but the truth is that the marriage didn't have a chance of surviving when only one is fighting for it.
You paint a bleak picture, but this is how life is. It doesn't offer closure, or an explanation from the ex husband, it doesn't give you time to gather yourself. You unravel and do things that you have despised in other people. Stalking seems acceptable because you hang on that little thread that things might go back to "normal" again...
I like the fact that you allow her time to come to a realisation that there is no going back and that she needs to come out if by herself. It pains to realise that there is no apology forthcoming to her. How does one start to live again? There is fear of it happening and a strange hope that it's fine to not let go of the past.
But eventually her defences are broken down by a new love, a different love, a healing and making whole again love. Maybe all that pain was worth it to be able to experience and rejoice in this new marriage. Is this life's way of being fair now? I don't know, but in this way she won't need the apology from her previous husband. She doesn't have the time for it, this new marriage is bringing out too many exciting things, so she is not thinking of the past.
The cold breakfast is forgotten...Now where is he hiding after bringing that dog to their home?
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