So, how does it get to this point? How does it get started?
You confide in one person and wham! it has turned into a rumor mill with so many different varieties in the situation you are in.
What do you believe when you hear it? Are you shocked like these women or are you shaking your head in the no position and then telling your friends?
That has been the story of my life for over a year now. I have disappeared from the public eye for over a year. I have heard so many things about me, after resurfacing into a new career. I am ashamed by what I hear my “friends” have said and then I am shocked that those things WERE said about me. I have been talked about, judged and ostracized.
First, let me say that no one is perfect. That includes the gossiper. If you hear something about someone, go to the person and let them know it is going around. Maybe you can stop the rumor mill because the person being gossiped about won’t be able to stop it once it gets into the ears of the right people. It spreads like wild fire.
I am have been keeping a low profile because of the things that have been said about me and how people think I have lived. But now I am breaking my silence. People might not want to deal with me. But then there are those who have the love of God in them and they have come to me and asked what is going on with these rumors. Almost the whole Real Estate department of Clarksville knows the gossip but no one knows the truth because no one has come to me but only a few. I mean, my name has gone to the top of the Chamber of Commerce and it’s been said I have remarried. Nope! My last name, Long, is my maiden name. I was known as Art Agnew’s wife and not my own person. I needed to have a fresh start. I didn’t expect a fresh start to begin with stones being thrown before a could get up off the ground.
I know I am not going to make people happy and my success as a Realtor was unblemished until my divorce. It gave everyone a way to find something wrong with me and tarnish my reputation through the rumor mill.
Everyone has been gossiped about. If I cared about what people thought, I wouldn’t be working. I would be depressed or better yet, I would be moving to a different state and starting over there. BUT no, I am staying in Clarksville, for now.
I know that a lot of these rumors are not true.
Why do you have such a hard time coming to me and asking me about it? Why do you have to go to my friends and ask them? Why not come to me? Better yet, why not just stop the rumors dead in their tracks? Don’t be included in this photo.
In some way, everyone is a hypocrite somehow. I have been called a hypocrite, a jealous woman, a cheater, an adulterer, an unfit mother, etc… Yes, all of these have come back to my ears and it has hurt me on top of everything else.
Did I ever do anything to you? Did I ever get in your business? No, I stayed in the Word of God, in my children’s life and in my Real Estate. Real Estate was so busy for me that I didn’t have much time for other things.
Did you come in my home and shut the door and watch how I lived? No. You didn’t. No one knows what goes on behind close doors, they just assume.
So, I ask and plead with each of you that will read this, STOP the rumor mill before it can go further. All it does is hurt the one being talked about.
Now it is time to pick myself up off the ground and dust myself off and try again in this world we live in.
Help a Sister out! Stop the Rumor Mill.
