HP, no annulment. But even if there were, I don’t know that I would do that either. Although I have said that I don’t think W has ever been able to form a real marriage bond, that’s more of an academic statement. Regardless of what she did or didn’t bring to the R, I certainly feel that we’ve been married for all these years. In my heart of hearts, I would look at an annulment after thirty years of M to be nothing more than a cop-out.
Quote: Or are you afraid that if you sever the ties with her, that you will be drawn to other women and tempted to repeat history? Sortof 'the devil you know is better than the devil you don't'?
That’s a tough one, Honey. I really don’t know. I do know that I’m already terribly tempted. I’m tempted by sex and by the possibility of finding a better R. I know a former co-worker whom I could call right now and be in bed with by lunchtime. There are times when it’s all I can do to resist calling her. A lot of times the only way I resist is by telling myself that it isn’t just sex that I want.
In reality, I don’t see that severing ties with W would make one iota of difference. What would be different?
T(rying)T(o)M(ake)AC(ase)ZB: Let’s see, I wouldn’t be having sex. R(aining)O(n)T(he)P(arade)ZB: Oh wait, I’m not having sex now. TTMACZB: Oh yeah, I would lose the EC and the intimacy that we now share. ROTPZB: Oops, we don’t have that now either. TTMACZB: Ahhh, but I wouldn’t have a naked woman sleeping next to me every night. ROTPZB: And I wouldn’t have my heart’s desire dangling just out of reach to torture me.
Nope, the only difference I can see is that I would miss out on the once in a blue moon times that W really is overcome by her physical desires.
