I'm sorry. Your story is familiar, with details changed.
Being wooed, feeling young is very important to someone who sees that slipping away and to someone who needs that to make them feel more attractive.
It's hard because if you're in a place where she needs you to woo her, but wants no part of YOU wooing her right now, it's a catch 22. You just have to make things as good and attractive to her as you can now, and wait for your moment to strike, so to speak.
One of my biggest mistakes was trying to shelter her from the worry of how really bleak things were at work with the crumbling economy and all (I'm in construction). I should have confided in her like the marriage partner I was supposed to be.
I apologize, I remember reading this with someone, and couldn't find it in your thread when I reread your thread.
Sometimes the job and 'coolness' factor is part of that. What can you do to up your ante on those things? Is money important to her? Or was the partner aspect more important to her?
