Because I value your insight and I'm taking notes!
Ours is also a 30+ year relationship, but that's pretty much where the similarity ends. For me, (and her until Mom passed) it was overwhelmingly good. Pretty much the only damage here is her rejecting me as her lover at bomb drop. Even so, I find this very disrespectful and will not put up with it forever. I've been going through one of my semi-regular "making this reality known to her" phases the past few days, but won't say anything because she is leaving for vacation on Sunday.
But, and I've said this many times before, eventually it seems it will come to this.
I know I'll be fine on my own... I don't need a best friend W (who looks hot) that I can't touch. On the other hand I have no interest in other women, and the issues they would surely come with. So, if we split, I would be open to reconnect, I think... but only if she chased me.
Thanks UR.
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
