Thanks Bruce and Bethie for the comments. It's not as bad as it sounds. Part of all that is devil's advocate and part of it is genuine skepticism about marriage. But, I know it can be done...I watched my parents do it until my father died. But that was a different time...when divorce was the last resort...not the first or at most the second.
But enough said. Once bitten twice shy; twice bitten God knows how many times shy.
Beth, I read what was on Bruce's thread and took this snippet over here:
Quote: I have to believe in myself, for me that's the first step. Yes, there will be mistakes and I'm sure plenty of them but that doesn't mean that any future mistakes will lead us down the same path.
Beth, I believe in myself, that's not the problem. It's that I don't believe in any one else; or at least I'm still skeptical that just when I start thinking that things are great....wham!!! ILYBINILWY....sorry I didn't tell you before what it was that was bugging me so much.
But there is someone out there, maybe a big headed blond bimbo. I've "been there, done that" with this most recent XW and as I said...emotions and past aside she is one I'd like to try with. But just like the sexy, beautiful, and so very sweet pregnant woman down the street, I can't sit around and wait on someone that doesn't want a R with me.
And btw, if you look past the jutting belly, there is a happiness and a glow that eminates from a pregnant woman. No, I'm not kinky in the pregnant woman sexual way. I just think they are attractive.
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