So it turns out I'm a jerk

I don't think I'm a total jerk, but I am most definitely a jerk.  At the end of my post last night I said that my ex had blocked me on Facebook.  I was really annoyed by that.  I think I probably made that pretty clear.  Here's the thing...she didn't block me.  She actually disabled her account.  She didn't block just me.  I made an assumption and then I brought it up in a blog post.

You would think that after almost 40 years of life I would have learned not to make assumptions, but that is turning out to be one of the hardest lessons for me to learn.  I was wrong to bring up Facebook in my post last night.  I apologized to my ex.  I shouldn't have done it.

If I might, please let me clarify a couple of other things about that part of last night's post.  I said that I blocked her for a 24 hour period during a time when I was pretty sure I didn't want to see the pictures she was going to post.  I did block her, and I apologized for doing so, but I don't think she ever posted a single picture that would have bothered me.  I thought she might, I'm not going to lie, but I don't think she ever did.  I should have known that she wouldn't.

I also said that I assumed she had things going on in her life that she didn't want me to know about.  I then followed that up by saying that I would never block her because I would never do anything that I wasn't comfortable telling her about.  That was mean, and wrong.  It led my four readers to a place where they would most likely believe that she was doing things that she needed to hide, and that I thought I was better than her.  Trust me when I say, I don't think that I am better that her.  Again, that was me making an assumption and I should not have done so.  The fact is, she didn't block me.  The fact is that she's never denied a friend request from me.  She and I both have unfriended each other on Facebook over the last 9 months, but I figure a lot of divorcing couples do that.  The truth is, as far as I know, I'm the only one of the two of us who has ever blocked the other on Facebook.

Well, what can I say.  I'm a jerk.  If my ex ever happens to read this, I'm sorry for the Facebook portion of my post last night.  I should not have made it.