Well. it is done. I have moved out. I'm sitting in my new house amid the boxes and furniture. Nothing much is different between me and W except I sleep 2 miles away instead of two rooms. I went over tonight to get some clothes and helped her get the printer working. Now it's her problem.
I had the mandatory parenting class tonight. One more session next week and she will file the papers and it will be official. I told her she can take the day off to go to court, I certainly am not. This has been her deal from the beginning and she can finish it.
She is understanding life is much harder. She went from a country club wife to a single mom working full time and is pretty much exhausted all the time. My guess is it would have been easier to just work on the marriage instead of quitting, but that was not my call to make.
She went from no financial worries to $200,000 in loans and a dead even budget. She gets to see her kids for only half of their time instead of every day. She is now riding the mower for the first time, gets to figure out how to tow the pop-up, and how to handle the kids without a man in the house.
Life with me must have really sucked for her to trade our life for her life. Unfortunately, she'll figure out that perhaps we had it pretty good a little too late. Or she won't.
Twenty years of building a life and a few months to destroy it all.
Well, I'm going to have the best revenge by living well. I got an awesome house by the lake, just got a new job, and will be going to the US Olympic Track and Field Trials next June. My mom wants to take me out furniture shopping. And we are signing up for another sailboat race in Lake Michigan in September. Next year I'll get a little boat for the lake by my house and the kids will never want to leave. I already had a gal tell me I'm her "perfect mind", and I'm not even dating yet. Things will just get better from here on out.
And W can go to hell.
built4speed My Saga "How others deal with the gifts you've given is not your decision, but theirs." - Richard Bach
