For the Guy with Kids and a WW Dix-Sept

[hopeful4her]

mC,

I stopped buying her books, too. A couple of years ago, when we had first started having problems, I bought several books that she never read.

She is not a reader.

When she was in the rehab last year, I got her the "Power of a Praying Woman" and "....Praying Wife" books. She read the "Woman" a bit, but only "Wife" sporadically. She did get into her Bible everyday. The aunt would call her and read scriptures with her.

This last book I bought out of kindness. I have no idea what is was about. I just know she watches Joel Osteen every Sunday since she stopped going to church last July. Osteen seems to be more of an inspirational speaker. I figured she would like it. No other reason. I would like her to start to attend church again.

I'm a big time rescuer, too. It would seem that most of us here, are.

If you were to ask the wife, she would say that yes, age played a difference. When we moved her nephew into our house two years ago, I became pretty bitter. I aged. Unable to laugh at myself. Overly serious. That's the me she was running from. All of the sudden, I was just a father figure from the beginning. All of the sudden, when we first hooked up, I was the adult she needed. I was 30, she was 20 and had a 6 month old. Her mother was not talking to her, and she had just left S14's father. She tells everyone she was married, but they were not.

The age difference became my fault at the end. I became my father and grandfather. Grouches.

Age is a state of mind and this has helped me find me again. I'm really fun to be around again. And for that, I'm grateful to her.