No, not at all, of course. I meant past the time for Althea. I'm certainly not worried about Mitch or his GF, though in all honesty, it is intrusive for Althea to ask Mitch to perform spouse-like duties.
The sooner one quits depending for people to perform a role in their life that they have no interest in performing, the sooner one's life will go better. Mitch does not want to be Althea's H, lover, or handyman. They are D. Better to move on and not get twisted around an old sense of entitlement.
Anyway, I seem to have inadvertently hit a nerve. Please just consider that the less you expect from someone who has divorced himself from your life, the better your life will go. X-spouses have separate lives. It is better to live that way as much as possible. Mitch doesn't need to change Althea's lightbulbs. Althea doesn't need to go to his place to make him chicken soup to freeze. They have separate households. It is inappropriate for either of them to ask the other to perform spouselike tasks.
Fully pursuing independence feels much better than grasping at shreds of feelings of entitled dependence.
Of course, it also involves giving up even more of those me-right, he-wrong, me-should-win, he-should-lose feelings. A tough step to take, but a good step to take in the long run.
