Going straight forward...antlers 6th thread.

[ClingingToHope]

I too thought I wouldn't find anyone I care about as deeply as STBXW, but I'm looking back with clearer vision and it was a very one-sided relationship. She cared almost nothing about my life. She never asked about my day, what I was working on, how my friends were.

So if I find someone who is as into me as I am into her -- meaning she wants to know what's going on with me and my life and not just how I can make her life easier -- then I'll be like a man in the desert finding an oasis.

What I'm sad about is that STBXW is central to my life. She's most of my 20s and all of my 30s and the relationship failed. So as I get older and look back it'll always be with the realization that it didn't work.

That I can't change.