Deception

This section of my website is actually about my 2nd wife, Sarah, but her mother: Glenda is a major part of the story.

Glenda whom passed a few years back was likely the most narcissistic person I’ve ever met.

As I was travelling to Bali almost weekly Sarah would occasionally come with me for a holiday and almost every time we went to Bali Glenda had to come with us. She was so particular about her appearance it would take forever to get anything done.

When Sarah and I moved to Jakarta, I would still travel between the electorate, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Minneapolis and Sarah was based in Jakarta because she was the CEO of JWT Indonesia.

On one flight between Melbourne and Jakarta in Business Class Garuda Glenda was forced on me to come with me and after the take off drinks and being polite I said to her that I needed to work on my laptop and I would be putting in my earphones and she would need to read a book, watch a movie or entertain herself. She agreed.

Literally within less than ten minutes she pulled out my earphones and said: “talk to me, I’m bored”.

I had a home office in Jakarta and what most people don’t get about working from home (especially in different time zones) is that just because one is working from home they aren’t working.

Whenever Glenda would visit us in Jakarta, Sarah would conveniently work long extra hours so I was essentially Glenda’s baby-sitter.

When I advised both Glenda and Sarah that Michael Jackson had died, Glenda just said: “Oh well” and she then went to our balcony on the 19th floor and I almost picked her up and threw her over!

I went into a state of depression for about a month over the loss of this superstar.

Glenda, in her later years, would occasionally get a PR job (usually thanks to Sarah) and she would always say: “I’ve been approached”.

When Sarah and I started dating she warned me about her Mother and she made me promise that she would never become like Glenda stating the Apple doesn’t fall from the tree.

I got Sarah and her biological Father reconnected who showed us all the Christmas and Birthday gifts he had sent to Sarah that were all marked Return to Sender: Sarah was shocked.

He was an expert pilot, a former Captain of the Roulettes, Chief Flight Captain for China Air and when he was based in Hong Kong Glenda bashed herself and called the Police to say she had been abused by her Husband. By nothing more than luck and his position he was not arrested and if he had been he would have been in a Hong Kong prison for years and would never fly again.

So thanks to me Sarah now had a career, a relationship with her Father and was living the high life thanks to my company’s success.

Spending my money was no issue for Sarah: handbags, shoes, flight upgrades, dresses etc.

I had to go to New York to meet one of my key clients and Sarah begged me to come with me and I said that would mean I wouldn’t be able to fly business so we would (a) have to fly economy and (b) she was not to spend any money other than going to the likes of MOMA or other tourist events but absolutely no clothing let alone shoes. She agreed which made it harder for me because even though I’m short I don’t like flying long haul in economy. New York City is not exactly around the corner from Melbourne.

We had a day of rest (known as Time Zone Adjustment or TZA) and then I had meetings the next day.

When I got back to the Hotel, I walked into the room using my swipe card and saw a suitcase that wasn’t ours and Sarah wasn’t there. I thought to myself: “I’m in the wrong room” but hang on? How did I get access then? So I re-entered the room and there was a brand new suitcase full of shoes. I was fucking furious!

I went down to the Bar and there Sarah was and her ‘excuse’ was that the prices of shoes were so cheap it was a necessary expense. Whilst it’s true that the US market is so massive that prices are much cheaper than in Australia even when including the dollar that was not the point: she broke the agreement.

What happened after that was out of control.

Whilst I was running for Parliament and thus based in the Bellarine, she was then based in Singapore because she had been fired from JWT but managed to get a job at Future Brand.

Two months into becoming pregnant, she told me over Skype when I was in Melbourne that when we were both last in London together that we had sex in the Hotel after meeting some of her family that got us completely hammered. We hadn’t had sex in years, the dates didn’t match up and I doubted that having being that drunk I would have been capable.

She asked if she should have an abortion but her hormones had already kicked in and I would never tell a woman what to do with their body.

I was staying with a mate in Melbourne and I told him that Sarah was pregnant and then we drank a bottle of real Champagne followed by G&T’s and then he asked: “why aren’t you happy?” and then the penny dropped: he remembered I have Aspermia and demanded I see my GP the next day.

After a sperm count test I was advised that the chances of my daughter being mine were less than 1% but “it wasn’t impossible” and so I hung onto those words, based myself in Singapore for the balance of the pregnancy and up until elven months of being a father of a daughter whom was never mine.

The deceit, the waste of money, the relentless lies, her cheating are all consistent with Glenda. Indeed the Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Ultimately Sarah was fired by McCann world group but without me to save her she moved to London with the alleged real father.

So as it turns out Sarah is also narcissistic.