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Divorced dudes
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Divorced dudes


Sep 30, 2015, 9:57 PM

does it get better ?


Asking for Fran

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Every day.***


Sep 30, 2015, 10:00 PM



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tell Fran to rock on.***


Sep 30, 2015, 10:10 PM



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Thanks, Fran says it feels odd


Sep 30, 2015, 10:12 PM

just a weird time

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tell Fran it's weird fo everybody in their own way.


Sep 30, 2015, 10:17 PM

and Emmylou and her network of artists is good for that. Hope it works out.

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why dont you ask the divorce queen of the lunge?***


Sep 30, 2015, 10:28 PM



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Well, you have two X chromosones


Sep 30, 2015, 10:31 PM

but enlighten me, from either side

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Its actually left up to your friend


Sep 30, 2015, 10:42 PM

some get hateful, some look for love in the wrong places while some fall back into the 20s single days and fall in love again.


But I dont think anyone can honestly say that its not a change and its not weird and its not different and you have to adjunct.

Tell your friend good luck, especially if your friend has smaller kids.... they make it really different.

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totes a weird feeling for my friend


Sep 30, 2015, 10:49 PM

but life is not a predictable mistress

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for anybody.***


Sep 30, 2015, 11:00 PM



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Do women ever come out on the bad end of a divorce?


Oct 1, 2015, 3:24 PM [ in reply to why dont you ask the divorce queen of the lunge?*** ]

If I was a woman I'd be looking for a reason to get divorced...its always a friggin' pay day for 'em.

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I've NEVER screwed over a to be ex.. no reason to


Oct 1, 2015, 7:02 PM

I work hard and make a good living, so we've always split bills and belongings down the middle.

I even helped make half the house payment for a yr while to be ex lived there.

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Absolutely.


Sep 30, 2015, 10:31 PM

You were unhappy together for whatever reason, and you are on your own again. It is usually better for the aggrieved party, I think.

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"Every man is my superior, in that I may learn something from him."


Tell me the oddness, weirdness goes away


Sep 30, 2015, 10:36 PM

last time I am weird in the jounge.....yep, just lied

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I was married for 28 years, never even came close to


Sep 30, 2015, 10:50 PM

cheating. Of course I have moments where it is odd to sleep alone, to be alone in the kitchen in the morning, to watch TV by myself. But I was married to an alcoholic, and not too many of those moments that I just mentioned were good moments in the last three years or so. The sudden removal of that stress was almost like getting the bends after popping up to the surface too quickly. It was disorienting to no longer have to worry about getting a phone call from somewhere that there was an arrest, or worse an accident. Never mind all of the embarrassing moments for me and my kids with friends and family.

Yeah, the weirdness goes away, faster when you get busy getting on with your life.

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"Every man is my superior, in that I may learn something from him."


thanks for the perspective


Sep 30, 2015, 10:54 PM

and, yep, this pales in comparison. And many a good vibe sent to you on your annoucement

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you're not gonna go off on some weird food thing are you?


Sep 30, 2015, 10:58 PM [ in reply to Tell me the oddness, weirdness goes away ]

I mean, frans personal probs are one thing, but when it leads to weird food things, well...it's either right down JouNge road to oblivion, or help. If we can help from boared frans, we're here for yo fran.

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Nope. I have eschewed food


Sep 30, 2015, 11:01 PM

OSF and her maternal instincts would hate me.


Lost over 90lbs

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well that's prolly a plus.


Sep 30, 2015, 11:12 PM

but hang in there. I'm not the one for best advice here having done 30 yrs married, but I'd say watching out for your own health is key. And appreciating any minute of non-weird connects for what it is.

There's a lot of peeps pulling for you here.

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I'm sure if you gave him


Sep 30, 2015, 10:47 PM

a handy he'd feel better






Still weird but better







had to bring a bit of the daytime lunge in on this one

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I'm re-married, but yes,....


Sep 30, 2015, 11:24 PM

it kept getting better, and better, and better. Then one day I awakened and said to myself, "Dayum, I knew there was a good life out there for me somewhere."

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My take.


Oct 1, 2015, 12:13 AM

Yes.

My divorce came out of the blue, and was personally devastating. Honestly, it shook me pretty dang deeply and I wasn't sure how or if I'd ever really regain that ground in my life.

But a year out from the separation and 9 months out from the divorce I can say that life has gotten better. Much, better.

You'll get tons of advice from folks here, and mine is just another voice in the crowd. But for me, a solid focus on my family and friends and folks who stood beside me, along with a searching of myself has led me to a much better place. And I don't now if you're a man of Faith, but for me that played a huge part in my regrouping.

All along the way every ounce of provision I needed was provided, and I can honestly say, yes, yes it gets better.

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I've been separated for 12 and divorced for ten come spring.


Oct 1, 2015, 4:17 AM

I think.

I'm not over it yet. At lease once every few weeks I dream about her. Actually, that's what woke me after the short sleep I got this morning.

I was raise to understand that people get married and that's it. I think the guilt of not making it work or being able to make it work bothers me. When I dream about her it's always the same. We have a short period of normalcy then she breaks my trust again. There is no evidence she ever cheated but she would climb a telephone pole and tell a lie before she would sit in a recliner and tell the truth.

Last night I dreamed that she was honest and sincere and want to put our family back together. I refused. I guess I wanted it to end long before it ended.

I guess for me it's was a deep wound that's kinda healed but it's gonna leave a mark for sure.

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Yes.


Oct 1, 2015, 6:10 AM

That being said, the future is what you make it.

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best thing that ever happened to me***


Oct 1, 2015, 7:25 AM



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Exercise and take care of your health


Oct 1, 2015, 8:40 AM

are the consistent tips from nearly every divorce advice source. Works for most any high stress event as well.

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I thought that was just so you could get buff and pull


Oct 1, 2015, 1:36 PM

hot tail and make her jealous the next time you saw her out in public?

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Tell your frand I'm sorry, and that I


Oct 1, 2015, 9:16 AM

offer discount rates to divorcees.

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She's a girl, right?***


Oct 1, 2015, 9:18 AM



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Yes******


Oct 1, 2015, 10:15 AM



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"You don't get control of the game when you're air-balling layups." - Brent Venables


eventually***


Oct 1, 2015, 12:38 PM



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The variety in the responses in this thread is fascinating.


Oct 1, 2015, 1:37 PM

It ranges from really sad to a world class infomercial for divorce.

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I never understand dudes who end up giving half their ####


Oct 1, 2015, 3:29 PM

away, then going right back into it. Doesn't make sense to me. If I got bit by a poisonous snake, I wouldn't be messing with any more snakes.

And at some point, which is probably after marriage number #2 dissolves (everybody gets one mulligan I guess), If you are looking at marriage number 3, you might want to be doing a little self inventory, 'cause while other people may appear to be the problem, they probably aren't.

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You know what a rattlesnake has in common with a condom


Oct 1, 2015, 3:30 PM

TOTEwan don't ### with either

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It gets much better.


Oct 1, 2015, 3:51 PM

I was the one that instigated my divorce. Not much to it other than I wasn't happy, hadn't been in a while, and didn't see that changing. I walked out of the house with a suitcase of clothes and left the rest to her. Ended up paying ~$30,000 per year in alimony and child support for about 5 years until she got remarried. The only other way out of that was for her to die (which I had prepared some good schemes for should she not get remarried in a reasonable time frame). The amount of debt I built up sucked. My relationship with my daughter had to completely be rebuilt. It was very hard for the first several years in many different ways. But sad sack story aside, I wasn't happy in the relationship and the transition was tough, but all of that was worth it. Ashleymadison.com was really a life saver and my doctor in town here is good. She could always recognize what I had in no time at all, give me a prescription to take care of it, and get my Viagara refill at the same time. Sometimes I'd leave with a prescription for some Ambien "to help me sleep on the international flights". Those came in handy on those lonely Friday nights when I was tired of hogging it at the IBG and just wanted to vanish. There were a few nights where I had too much and the combination of vomiting with the beer ##### was a mess to clean up in the morning. I'll admit, it was kind of fun after the first few times to try to figure out what the smell was when I finally woke up the next morning. I still think the vomit odor was stronger, but I had several people ask me if a cat took a dump in the house. I don't have a cat.

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Not sure if JoungeGOLD or just Sad.***


Oct 1, 2015, 4:01 PM



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Are we NOT playing 'Name That Tarantino Movie' here?!?!??!?***


Oct 1, 2015, 4:04 PM



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