You read me the riot act when your daughter and I split up. Just a...

few things I need to put in writing because if I tell you myself, I will probably want to strangle you or her. You were concerned that I might be carousing with loose women after we separated. Are you aware that you daughter left our home and moved in with another man the almost immediately after she left? You can say that he was just a friend but if I had moved in with a woman you would have wanted to cut off my balls with a piece of rusty tin. She never complained about anything to me, there was never a conversation about distress in our relationship. She wouldn't let me call when I needed to talk to her, she cut me off completely. She was lining in another guys house, he provided her with a car, took her out to dinner, etc. Thirty years later he was a loser and I know it but to me at 20 years old, alone, with no one close to me. What was I supposed to do. For me, 30 years later, hindsight is 20/20, if I had it to do over I would do some things differently. But your daughter was wrong in doing what she did, now on her 3rd husband, I have been married to the same woman for 26 years and have a great job and a wonderful family. You still look at me like gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe when you see me but I got the better end of the deal. The sad part is that your daughter, MDK, was the love of my life, I never cheated on her, never wanted to. I would have done anything to make it work if she had been willing to work with me. I have a wonderful wife but sometimes I can't help but wonder what it would have been like if we had stayed together. The children and grand children. I think she listened to the rest of the west pac widows she worked with instead of talking to me. Taking marital advice from someone who has been divorced 5 times is not very smart, a poor decision as she would say. I will take my life the way it is now.

By Anonymous on General,