Thanks Sam for your words.

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Maybe I just don't know you or your story well enough. I could be dead wrong. I am just surprised that you are so sure you two will only be friends.

I do think you are putting too much pressure on her. Maybe telling yourself that you two will only be friends will allow you to give her the space she needs.




Too much pressure is right, on her and on me both. Pressure that I put on both of us. The friendship feels natural. I like being with her and I like being with her kids. I won't jeopardize that anymore with holding onto hope that it will be anything more than just friends getting together occasionally.


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