I feel like I'm 35 and have to start everything all over again.
Max, I am really sorry to make your acquaintance under these circumstances. Tomorrow I turn 45 -- I am about 10 years older than you then and facing starting over. But it hurts no matter what age you are.
Do you have children? I did not gather you do. In a small way, that would be a real blessing -- it is so incredibly harder to detach when there are little ones involved. Please don't get me wrong, I would suffer a stroll through Hell itself to have the pleasure of being the father to my two sons, but I know that this ordeal would have been far easier to handle if it were not for the fact that we have two small children who have to experience this pain as well.
