You don’t miss M, you miss the fantasy you were trying to shoehorn him into. Know the difference.
Glad you had fun and got to enjoy the fire pit!
I have a friend IRL that I met here about 15 years ago (turned out she lived a mile from my house). Her husband was one of those sudden departures - stood up at dinner saying he couldn’t take it anymore and left for the OW she didn’t know he had.
It was an acrimonious divorce and he married the OW. While my friend had stayed on top of her husband’s health issues (diabetes and heart disease) her daughter reported that food at his new home was all junk food.
This last year their daughter married and her ex actually gave a speech recognizing what a great job my friend had done raising their daughter and admitting he had little to do with it. Could have knocked her over with a feather!
Now he’s dead of his neglected diseases and OW has stage 4 colon cancer.
Not sure where I’m going with this, guess your ex’s improved behavior reminded me of that.
