Maybe my point of view is skewed, but when one’s wife of 23 years, for whom one has worked hard to provide a good loving home, LEAVES and moves in with a bum who lives off the public dole and the women he gets to live with him.......
One gets a sour taste in one’s mouth for marriage.
Goodness! Exactly the same happened to a buddy. I was over at his house for dinner when I suddenly realized his wife was hitting on a guy who had trouble tattooed all over him. A few months later she moved in with this in-and-out-of-prison deadbeat. (He was a handsome deadbeat, but gee.)
Figured this out years ago.
Worked hard to make a place for two, but the current crop in my age range are not worth the bother.
Retire next year with a great pension, own my home.
I wanted a partner to care for, not a liability.
It is not what I wanted, to be without a wife, but it is the lesser of two evils.
Pity
I couldn’t have written that. It was only 21 years.
Besides, her boyfriend then got his other girlfriend pregnant.
The new boyfriend has a very nice place in a trailer park.
Do you want to collaberate on a real-life Sitcom. I’ve been told mine would be hilarious.
23 years eh? In California anything over 7 years obligates you to paying alimony for the rest of your life (unless she re-marries, so she’ll usually just shack up with the bum instead).
I feel You’re Pain.
Now THAT is harsh.