And the beat goes on...

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Thanks, everyone, as always...jb, your reference to "Groundhog Day" made me laugh. It is very weird how the history is repeating itself.

gb90, you make a good point about being the rock, which is what any woman wants from her man, regardless of their relationship condition. My W is acting "as if" there isn't a problem at all - at least, that's how she is around me - but I suspect that her other relationships, especially with SS24, will unravel soon. Whether that allows her to see what is really happening is not up to me, and I stopped trying to be her moral compass months ago.

I made a promise to myself to be strong and non-judgmental in front of her. I'll come here to post and vent my frustrations and my successes.

It is remarkable how this miserable situation has allowed me to cultivate and grow relationships with my family, friends and myself that I had previously been neglecting, and to plant new ones with new people. I wish I could take this feeling and inject it into the other newcomers here who think there is no hope in what is happening to them.

I also think about the thousands of others who are going through what we are going through but do not have the resources like this site, or DB & DR, or the other resources we have been able to use. How desperate they must feel...

OK, I'm done waxing philosophical.