Sad pictures

Werner’s dream must have been in about February 2007.

For you to understand what was happening in his life, I need to paint the picture of what his life looked like at that time.

When they were first married, Werner and Cream Puff stayed in a flat. They decided to buy a house. The one they eventually bought was in bad shape and needed a lot of fixing up. I often get the idea, that this house would not have been Werner's first choice - since it needed such a lot of repair work.

Werner started the 4 – 5 year stint of fixing up the house. He took out carpets, redid bathrooms and started making a sound room for himself. In the mean time he began fixing up the garden, and managed all that work himself – without any help.

Cream Puff’s mother had a farm in Witbank, and they regularly went to visit the family on the farm. With the advent of the house, it became too much for Werner to be away for whole weekends at a time, plus keeping the garden going and fixing up the house. Cream Puff began going to the farm alone, taking the children with her.

Cream Puff’s mother fell seriously ill. She had a type of muscular dystrophy – it was degenerative and fatal. With this, Cream Puff increased her visits to the farm, now going every weekend. This meant that Werner was alone, every weekend, no children and no wife. He did the garden and house, Cream Puff went to the farm. I wonder how he managed to survive this time. He is such a chatty, sociable person. For me, it paints the picture of a very sad and lonely way of life.

The weekend after Werner had discovered the cell phone with the messages – Cream Puff again went to the farm with the children. At this stage, he did not fully know what to make of the messages, but told Cream Puff to break off this “friendship”.

For some reason he can’t remember, Werner began looking for the children’s bible which he knew was somewhere in the house, during that weekend. While looking for this, he found more than he bargained for... inside a drawer, Cream Puff had hidden away draft divorce papers.

Now for the first time he realized – here is a BIG problem.