Gypsy - The ones I know on here that are out seeing new ladies are myself, Mike in Tennessee and Arthur in England. I think for us, we have realized that our wives were not all that great after all and we know there are much better ladies such as yourself to spend our spare time with. One of the divorced ladies I have dated waited 2 years before starting to date. It could be that women get a longer lasting bitter taste from the betrayal by their husbands and they are afraid to have a repeat. I think there is also the factor that us guys have a desire to make a woman happy. It is much easier to give than to receive. Venus and Mars stuff...
And RTL is right - I feel like a teenager now as in addtion to phone calls and dates, I am texting (something new for me) and IM'ing the latest G40 (gasstationmanager40). We had a great time playing scrabble at a pizza place last night (I lost). She called when I got home and we talked for over an hour. She is coming by my house on Saturday with her D4 and we are driving to Eugene to visit with her brother's family. I feel so at ease with this beautiful and intelligent lady and we both have told each other that while I am still legally married that we are going to remain at bat and not start rounding any bases.
There is some anticipation on my part that my D may be final before Nov 20, but I got the latest offer from W's L yesterday and they still are asking too much for a spousal lump sum payout (I say 30K and they want 55K). I also have mentioned to my L that we may want to use the recently reduced value of the retirement and house to help leverage against them some. We got them to agree to our division of assets value as they were trying to split my checking again and throw in an extra 6K for household items which we had already split. The are letting me have the child deductions and credits on my taxes as W cant use them anyway. Besides my paying child support, I am responsible for the kids health care, school fees and music lessons. I also must maintain life insurance for myself which I already had.
