Sorry, but I call B.S. on that. Methinks you are lying to yourself about the reasons you want to go out with the girls. Go out with guys if you want to go out. You are still married and if/when you aren't you need time to heal alone or with male friends. You aren't looking for a realtionship, yet you are wanting to go out with women who ARE???????????????????? You will repeat the cycle you have been on. You told us once how you went from your home to relationship to relationship. Codependence was brought up. You will have problems in another relationship if you begin one too soon. You don't need SOMEONE to make you happy. You need to make yourself happy. Thus why many people told you to GAL right away for YOU. It is attractive to women to have a strong, happy man who is not dependent on THEM for their happiness. H4h, the pain you are feeling right now is what my H felt when we separated as well, but he loved me all along, never swaying from that no matter what.