So long soul eating wench. Yeah I’m not exactly sober for the first time in YEARS. But I digress. I’m done.
Sounds like a painful relationship is over. Congrats. Sounds like you also go other items to knock out too. No time like the present to get started. Best of luck.
Congrats Ghostman! I’d buy you a beer my man.
So you’ve met my ex-wife too. :lol:
Here’s to happier days. :dance3:
You may not think so right now, but it does get better. The sun will rise tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that.
Just take it slow and don’t be in a rush to jump into a relationship too quickly.
I made that mistake after my fiancee dumped me and it poisoned the proverbial well for a while after that.
Enjoy life as a single guy for a while.
Sounds like me a year ago. I wasted 7yrs and I don’t know how many thousands of dollars. I was one of the stupid guys that tells his girlfriend/fiancee to quite work and go to school full time and not to worry I’ll take care of the bills!! :haha:
Anyway she was a waste of time and money and I am the one now going back to school to change my profession. The money I blew on her sure would come in handy over the next couple of years.
The only good thing I have to say is that she was loyal and wouldn’t cheat. So I was the lucky chosen one to bare the full brunt of her craziness!!! Good times!!! :alcoholic:
I’m right there with you brother!
I realized how bad things for me were when it dawned on me that my ex brought out the worst in me.
Then another realization that love is supposed to do the exact opposite.
I’m better off.
You will be too.
Was this your 1st practice wife? 
Here’s an M4c classic that is in line with your sentiments and may be therapeutic 
https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?t=42253
I do feel for ya.
Don’t be too hard on yourself.
Accept the truths, acknowledge your weaknesses and flaws and LEARN from them.
I have done the same.
Some people get very lucky and get the right one. Most do not.
Hang tough, tough times don’t last, tough men do…
This is one of those things you dont know whether to say congratulations or im sorry. Sounds like congratulations are in order though.
Now its time to start smoking cigars(if you dont already) and doing all the shit women dont like. Then when you find a girl that can stand all that shit, you will know you have a winner.
Usually the term “I am free of her” translates into “Holy shit am I in pain right now. I know it’s for the best but I just can’t believe how bad I feel inside”.
Been there, done that.
I stayed in a marriage five years past it’s expiration date because I was too afraid of the loss, the embarrassment, the financial insecurity, a whole host of shit I used to justify my inaction.
Whatever pain I experienced when I finally called it quits was dwarfed by the “death by a thousand cuts” misery of those last years when we just made each other miserable.
Ya gotta get cut before ya can heal and, in hindsight, I wished I’d just nutted up and walked when I should have. We both would have been a lot better off.
These are wise words of experience talking.
In the past year, being single equaled getting custody of my kids, living below my means and replacing all of the firearms that I sold from living above my means. No bill collectors calling, no credit cards, no arguing. Sometimes I feel selfish but I have spent several years doing for everyone else… It’s my turn! :happy:
Good Luck Bro!
Once upon a time, a Prince asked a beautiful Princess, “Will you marry me?”
The Princess said, “No!!!”
And the Prince lived happily ever after and shot guns and rode motorcycles and banged skinny long-legged big-breasted broads and hunted and fished and raced cars and went to naked bars and dated women half his age and drank beer and single-malt Scotch and never heard bitching and never paid child support or alimony and banged cheerleaders and kept his house and guns and ate spam and potato chips and beans and blew enormous farts and never got cheated on while he was at work and all his friends and family thought he was frikin’ cool as hell and he had tons of money in the bank and left the toilet seat up.
The end.
Amen brother. I remember after my first serious girlfriend cheated on me with like 4 different dudes I told her to go pound sand but wouldn’t admit why we broke it off because of the embarrassment that I was so oblivious. I was even thinking of picking up the engagement ring about a month before I found out. The best thing that happened from that break up: I lost 40 pounds from my break-up weight and now I am much healthier than I was back then.
I think we were married to sisters!
MY LIFE got a whole LOT better. She keeps coming around and repeatedly asking if I have ever wanted to “Reconcile” to which I ask “Why the hell would I want to”? Then I got a GF, and she really put on the boots, but finally got the message. This one feels the same way I do about how/where we might be going. What a BIG difference now. Just NOT going to jump into anything yet.
Here’s to better: :dance3:
For the record, Im happily married. But, this cracked me up! Good luck to those of you starting new journeys!
I once dated a girl who did porn. That was stupid. Glad I got a good woman now.