So perhaps what I miss about Liz the most is maybe what I thought I had, and also missing that somebody who would always be there for me type of thing.
Do any of you feel kinda like the same?
I absolutely feel the same way. Like you and your wife, my wife and I also met very young. We were our first and only lovers. The idea that either one of us could ever give up on the other never entered my mind. It was such a rude awakening. If my life partner of 33 years could bail on me then anybody could. The belief that there is a such thing as true everlasting love and commitment has now been shattered forever.
I read the stories of members here married for under ten years, sometimes obviously on their second time around, and think while their pain is also real, it's just not the same. They already knew something I only just learned.
M: A really long time. Crisis: 5 years. She's still worth it.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. -Viktor Frankl
