Regardless of how all this shakes out, I don’t want to be fooled again by a woman (someone else, or even if W wants back in the pic down the road).
Well my friend, they don't exactly wear warning signs around their necks that say "warning, WAW in training". You didn't fall in love with a WAS, none of us did. We weren't "fooled". We fell in love with rational, caring, loving women who thought the world of us and would do anything, probably even lay down their own life for ours. How they transform from that into hating us could be the subject of a master thesis I think. So the way I see it, your choice is to roll the dice again, or choose not to get that serious with anyone ever again.
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Right now, I’m a bit leery of pursuing a more devout / faithful Catholic woman because I wouldn’t want her to do the almost-180 that W has done on really, well, everything—personality, faith, wedding vows, what have you.
It's not because she's Catholic. There have been LBS's here with WAS's from every race, creed, nationality, religion and non-religion. Walkaways are universal! Personally I do tend to think that extremely religious people tend to hide their true feelings and intentions behind a pious facade so that could be a contributing factor I will admit.