He has always loved his kids and did spend a little time playing with them but for the main part has been a hands off type guy. He was good when we were together in getting D and S breakfast and getting them off to day care and school. He is with them the same way that he was with me. There physically but not emotionally or affectionately. He told me during the first time we started having our discussion about our R that he likes being a loner but with friends and out, he is mr social guy, life of the party.
It does bother him not being with his kids and I can see it when my D is being affectionate to him but unlike you, he doesn't seem to detest it or he is just bottling it all up inside. He does that with everything.
I am alot closer to my breaking point. I can't stay with someone who protests so loudly when asking him for just a few hours with his kids. He said he would go up and have dinner at his ma's house when she has them at night. His idea now of spending time with his kids is saying hi, doing whatever he needs to do then bye. I can't stay in a relationship based on that is all the affection that I get then being expected to give him all the hot sex that he wants.
I don't think that he will ever realize what is truly important and that is that your family comes first before anything else. Until he comes to that realization then there is nothing that can be between us. He will probably be one of those guys that wakes up one morning when he is 52 and say while, I should have done things different 13 years ago. I should have listened to you and made things work. He is not a horrible guy. he will do anything for anybody but there is just one part of him that is sooo distant. It is like he still wishes that he was 20 again.
Me: 41 H: 39 D: 6 S: 4 M-14 T-16 first bomb: 5-12-07 (M dead doesn't really want to work things out.) second bomb: 6-4-2007 (found note he wrote about wanting desperately to be with OW and would have to give up everything) Kelley