I agree with what both ken and Jim has said. I honestly do.
For more than two years now, you all have been a source of my recovery back into this business. You all have been my source to believe in myself again and rise above the place I was. I never expected to have to deal with seeing robert around and that has been rather unnerving and has brought up stuff I thought I had dealt with. Apparently there is more to keep dealing with.
I can only assume there is a purpose, I do not know yet why this is in my face like it is. So it is not anyone eles's problem but mine, and I apologize that I went off and made everyone think differently.
Like Becker sharing a personal issue with everyone to help him make up his mind because he considers everyone to be a friend here, I have done the same.
I know what my deep motive and desire was when I made the decisions I made with robert.
They were out of Love for the friendship I thought we had, the concern for the welfare of the employees and customers and even the Chem-Dry name.
Just think about what you may have done and what agony you would go through if all of a sudden you went out to your mail box and 12 years of what you sacrificed for, someone said. uh..........NO we are taking it ALL away from you, this is why and you have nothing you can say or do about it.
I leaned on robert many times over the few years I knew him for advise and encouragement. I very readily agreed to his presence and leadership when Harris Research gave me 14 days to shut it down. It was all decided in a short 28 days and that was certainly not enough time to obsorb what had happened. I believe of course that was done by design.
At the time and he knows , no one could have been more broken then I.
I felt safe to make those decisions. When it turned ugly, I then had no alternative but to survive and make a way for myself. I almost did not, but if I wanted to go on and make the best of a rotten situation I had
no choice.
robert took the opportunity not to be honest and talk with me, but to talk to everyone else.
It is tragic because I truly did have a love for our business association with him and thought I could trust in that I had no others I believed I could trust.
The scares remain and I am sure not just for me, but probably for him too.
The hurt is more out of the fact that he chooses to ignore and not admit any wrong doing on his part so naturally I am still hurt about it.
In fact, if he really believed I was in any wrong, the right thing would have been to sue me and let a judge decide if He owed me for the property he bought. That would have been the right thing to do, not take from me an income I needed to live on thus making it more difficult for
me to provide for myself.
I will say this...........
I have a great business now that I am being blessed with
I have a wonderful and loving husband that is the best friend and
confidant I could ever have asked for. He is teaching me I can trust
again.
As far as robert goes. He knows that he knows how it all went.
The facts are this, if you buy something, you pay for it, you don't find ways to get out of it.
He may have felt justified in not fulfilling the purchase bill of sale, but there is no one who even reads the stuff that can connect the bill of sale to the papers I signed between Harris, he and I. Equipment and tangible goods are property. Property that was sold, no different than if I had had
a fire sale and someone came in and bought the whole kitten bundle.
I never expected to see roberts presence on any of these boards because he is part of the franchise he is with and for me to have all of a sudden see he is present and even have been lurking about hit me very hard.
Forgiving him for all of this is possible, it just makes it hard when he will not admit any wrong doing.
I will come to that place because it will be for my own welfare and not his.
He has his own cross to bear.
I don't think he is a bad guy, but he did do what was wrong.
I don't mean to ramble so much, but then, You all know that is my MO
I promise, I will not bring this subject up again.
Enough has been said for many life times.
I am happy to be where I am today and I have learned a lot and have found a world outside the Chem-Dry box I never knew existed.
That I am thankful for too.
For more than two years now, you all have been a source of my recovery back into this business. You all have been my source to believe in myself again and rise above the place I was. I never expected to have to deal with seeing robert around and that has been rather unnerving and has brought up stuff I thought I had dealt with. Apparently there is more to keep dealing with.
I can only assume there is a purpose, I do not know yet why this is in my face like it is. So it is not anyone eles's problem but mine, and I apologize that I went off and made everyone think differently.
Like Becker sharing a personal issue with everyone to help him make up his mind because he considers everyone to be a friend here, I have done the same.
I know what my deep motive and desire was when I made the decisions I made with robert.
They were out of Love for the friendship I thought we had, the concern for the welfare of the employees and customers and even the Chem-Dry name.
Just think about what you may have done and what agony you would go through if all of a sudden you went out to your mail box and 12 years of what you sacrificed for, someone said. uh..........NO we are taking it ALL away from you, this is why and you have nothing you can say or do about it.
I leaned on robert many times over the few years I knew him for advise and encouragement. I very readily agreed to his presence and leadership when Harris Research gave me 14 days to shut it down. It was all decided in a short 28 days and that was certainly not enough time to obsorb what had happened. I believe of course that was done by design.
At the time and he knows , no one could have been more broken then I.
I felt safe to make those decisions. When it turned ugly, I then had no alternative but to survive and make a way for myself. I almost did not, but if I wanted to go on and make the best of a rotten situation I had
no choice.
robert took the opportunity not to be honest and talk with me, but to talk to everyone else.
It is tragic because I truly did have a love for our business association with him and thought I could trust in that I had no others I believed I could trust.
The scares remain and I am sure not just for me, but probably for him too.
The hurt is more out of the fact that he chooses to ignore and not admit any wrong doing on his part so naturally I am still hurt about it.
In fact, if he really believed I was in any wrong, the right thing would have been to sue me and let a judge decide if He owed me for the property he bought. That would have been the right thing to do, not take from me an income I needed to live on thus making it more difficult for
me to provide for myself.
I will say this...........
I have a great business now that I am being blessed with
I have a wonderful and loving husband that is the best friend and
confidant I could ever have asked for. He is teaching me I can trust
again.
As far as robert goes. He knows that he knows how it all went.
The facts are this, if you buy something, you pay for it, you don't find ways to get out of it.
He may have felt justified in not fulfilling the purchase bill of sale, but there is no one who even reads the stuff that can connect the bill of sale to the papers I signed between Harris, he and I. Equipment and tangible goods are property. Property that was sold, no different than if I had had
a fire sale and someone came in and bought the whole kitten bundle.
I never expected to see roberts presence on any of these boards because he is part of the franchise he is with and for me to have all of a sudden see he is present and even have been lurking about hit me very hard.
Forgiving him for all of this is possible, it just makes it hard when he will not admit any wrong doing.
I will come to that place because it will be for my own welfare and not his.
He has his own cross to bear.
I don't think he is a bad guy, but he did do what was wrong.
I don't mean to ramble so much, but then, You all know that is my MO
I promise, I will not bring this subject up again.
Enough has been said for many life times.
I am happy to be where I am today and I have learned a lot and have found a world outside the Chem-Dry box I never knew existed.
That I am thankful for too.
