Openside wrote:
Green Highlander wrote:
Bessantj. No I haven't spoken to her for over a year, since she came round and attacked my girlfriend when she wouldn't let her just walk into the house. (Honestly unprovoked - my girlfriend is a barrister, so she wasn't about to do anything that would draw a complaint - and we're not that sort of people anyway. Although reading it back, it all sounds very Jerry Springer.)
Sounds like you are well rid of both of them. Total lack of moral fibre the pair of them!!
Too right. Onwards and upwards to better things for GH hopefully.
Yes, at the risk of sounding glib (I had a horrible time, but am now pushing forward), it's worked out quite well for me in the end. A few years of awful depression and I somehow ended up with a lovely, much younger girl (16 years my junior - I'm 52). You mention moral fibre - she's a former army officer and now a barrister; straight as a die. And I met her when I was at my lowest - tried to put her off for weeks by telling her all the worst about me. After a while she said, "I know what you're doing, you know, and it's not working."
And this is the honest account of the ensuing conversation:
I said, "But you don't want to be with someone like me. I'm totally f***ed up".
She said, "Oh, you're not f***ed up. You just need a sex-mad, younger girlfriend".
And she's nursed me through the depression for two years, forgives all my rugby aches and pains as "that's what happens when you're an old man", and is pushing me to have more kids sooner rather than later (I'm up for it) on the grounds that, "I don't want to be changing your nappies while I'm still changing theirs!".
And she likes all the things about me that my wife used to hate.