I don't have kids with my ex-wife to keep me anchored. My kids like to see her kids so that's something at least. She doesn't really encourage it, but at least she doesn't discourage it either. And I like to see her kids. Maybe she likes to see mine...don't know. If I had a child with her I think it would be much more difficult to even consider OW. It's hard enough as it is.
It's scarey sometimes when I think if I just let go completely and she stays let go that we could just drift apart forever. No more seeing each other at all except for a card to her kids on their b-days.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt