Thanks, Goal.

I've screwed up on all of these and learned their value the hard way.

Problem is that some of them are hard to avoid. She lives in the same apartment building as me (a big one, but not so big that it's all that tough to drop in anytime, which she does), which makes me pretty available. I have to do a lot of work at home, so I can't really stay away very easily.

I'm trying to be happy. But her foul moods really bring me down. They also make me feel guilty. And then I think about the OM and get enraged.

She brings up relation stuff all the time, basically to tell me how much I hurt her.

So I'm doing the best I can (or close to it).

How she met the OM? Business over the internet. Phone calls and e-mail. It happened right under my nose, which makes me look like a.) the biggest moron on the planet and/or b.) such a horrific SOB that another man(?) could woo my W right out from under me with nothing but a kind word.

I know that neither one of these are strictly true, but I feel like a real ass some days.