Donna,

To be more direct in answering your question, I've allowed myself to put up w/GF b/c of my own fear of being alone again. I jumped in and things w/GF and I were great at first, so I got hooked.

Lately, they haven't been going well, especially over the past few weeks or so as she's been pulling away.

I would love for GF to want to be w/me and become more open and loving, but that may be an impossibility. Instead, I need to make sure that I'm not putting myself in a position to be weak and taken advantage of any longer.

That is the key - not only for myself in the long-term - but for any relationship I'm going to have. If it isn't w/this one, I'll still have to be careful to look out for myself in the next one or I'll find myself in the same place again.

RTL


M:38; D: 6
Divorce Final: 10/6/08