Quote: I know quite a few men who walked away from their families and ended up regreting the decision, but unfortunately much later, and that usually happened AFTER they met someone else, found out that new partners were not any better than their previous partners.
Probably reflective of the fact that the walk-away is looking for something missing in themselves that can't be given to them by another. Instead of looking inward at their own problems/faults/insufficiencies and doing something about making themselves complete, they look for that in others.
Quote: I am glad you and the girl you were seeing last summer sort of died out naturally
I wish I could say that was true. Actually several months ago she started texting me. I didn't know she had remarried. I guess she was already unhappy with her decision to remarry her XH. Anyway, she called last weekend and explained things to me and that she was getting divorced from him yet again. I happened to be in her town yesterday so I did go to meet her. And it really was quite amazing how relaxed and comfortable things were with her. I don't quite understand why it is so much easier with her (and other women) than it is with my XW. I guess because there isn't the history. We actually had a really nice time and I'll probably see her for a bit this weekend. I don't anticipate it going anywhere, but I do enjoy her company. It's probably not smart. In fact, maybe I'm in the way of any possibility of reconciliation (although the divorce is finalized), but they have married and divorced three times. I guess both searching for a way to get complete.
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
