The backpacking idea is so perfect. Hard to do that if you are married to (or even in a relationship with) someone. That's right, seize the opportunity that life has given you.

Re: dating, I was all over the place in my mind with this, which to me made it clear to me that I was not ready for it. Being around women I would recommend, though. Just getting flirted with and hit on does wonders for the soul.

And you may end up with a crazy story involving your soon-to-be divorced next door neighbor trying to pick you up in the dark storage bowels of a model train museum while you drink keg beer with random hash house harriers after you literally ran over her on a jog 30 miles from home in the pouring rain under the biggest double rainbow in recorded history.

Me-53
W-49
D22,D18,D15
T-Since-12/2001
Married-9/2004
She Moved Out-5/28/2010
Piecing start-04/2011
Now-together
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