Divorce after Twenty years together Community Group
I want to start something for those of us that were married for a long long time. I think that we face a little different issues than those who were dating for a few years or even married for shorter period of time. Being married for so long we have older children some have grandkids dealing with teenagers and their reaction to the divorice empty nesters dating after 40...
lostwh
I came home from work tonight and I could tell my son was upset about something, so I asked him what was wrong. He told me my ex told him she was thinking about moving to another state where her family lives. I told him I didn't think she would do that and not to worry about it.
While we were eating dinner I heard a car in the driveway, so I looked and it was my ex. I opened the door and she asked if I could talk for a minute. I thought she was going to tell me she was moving, so I went out and sat in her car. She started her usually blaming me for everything wrong with the kids and anything else she could think of. I asked her if that was all she wanted and she said, no she wanted to know if she got rid of the om could we be friends, because the kids need to have that feeling of family. I thought my head was going to explode, I said that would be great to bad you didn't think of this before you screwed the om while you were married to me. I told her the divorce put an end to her and I being a family. She said she wants to have things to do with the kids but the two oldest never come to her house. I told her it was because the om and his kids are always there and because the boys are embarassed by what she's done, because they hear about it all over town.
I finally heard all I could take and got out of the car and told her to stay out of my life and don't contact me again, that I was doing fine without her.
How does she think that she can lie and cheat on me and tell lies about me,and then think we can just be friends like nothing ever happened. Am I wrong for feeling like this? I wish she would straighten her life up for the sake of the kids and grandaughter, but thats between them. I don't feel like I should have to deal with her again.
While we were eating dinner I heard a car in the driveway, so I looked and it was my ex. I opened the door and she asked if I could talk for a minute. I thought she was going to tell me she was moving, so I went out and sat in her car. She started her usually blaming me for everything wrong with the kids and anything else she could think of. I asked her if that was all she wanted and she said, no she wanted to know if she got rid of the om could we be friends, because the kids need to have that feeling of family. I thought my head was going to explode, I said that would be great to bad you didn't think of this before you screwed the om while you were married to me. I told her the divorce put an end to her and I being a family. She said she wants to have things to do with the kids but the two oldest never come to her house. I told her it was because the om and his kids are always there and because the boys are embarassed by what she's done, because they hear about it all over town.
I finally heard all I could take and got out of the car and told her to stay out of my life and don't contact me again, that I was doing fine without her.
How does she think that she can lie and cheat on me and tell lies about me,and then think we can just be friends like nothing ever happened. Am I wrong for feeling like this? I wish she would straighten her life up for the sake of the kids and grandaughter, but thats between them. I don't feel like I should have to deal with her again.
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I don't think she thought of the kids when she left, and they know it. That's her problem, not yours. She has to step up to the plate of being their mother, and she has to do it herself. IMO, she'd be better to spend time with them on their own a few times, and rekindle the bonds by showing them that she loves them and wants to take an interest in them.
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I don't think you are wrong at all. You have every right to feel the way you do. I do think hanging out as friends can be confusing to the kids and sometimes can make things harder not easier on them. Hard to imagine after all the damage has been done that things could ever be normal again. I know that feeling too. I do agree with PsiChi that all signs point to the fact that things are not working out in her life the way she had planned. I agree with you and Kamary that the relationship with the kids and fixing of it should be between her and them. She didn't need your help destroying it and she shouldn't need your help fixing it. She can't make fixing things with them dependent on a friendship with you, because if you guys cannot be friends and her fixing it with the kids is contingent upon that, then she will be right back a square one anyway.
Hang in there (((((( hugs))))))
I only know of one person who has done this and successfully moved on and been happy. Don't know how he kept sane, but I can't imagine ever doing it.
I trust and rely on my friends. I have fun and can be myself. Couldn't do that my X.
I wrote a thread about it so I am just going to post that thread instead of re-writing it...Big Hugs...Kathy
http://www.dailystrength.org/groups/divorceaftertwentyyearstogether/discussions/messages/17267393
I think they want this as a way of saving face. They know full well what they did and how it happened, but if they think people will look favorably on them, then it will assuage some of their guilt. THAT is an illusion and I REFUSED to have any part of it.
They shall reap what they have sown. They will suffer the consequences of THEIR decisions and THEIR actions. Too bad.
Don't fall for it.
She is using the ploy of moving away to tug at your heartstrings. Shame on her for using the kids this way. You were smart to get out of the car and tell her not to contact you. You did the right thing.
She made the decision to cheat. She has to live with the results of her choices.
A year and a half or so later we still live over 700 miles a part so it is pretty easy to get along. We don't fight and get along much better not married to each other. I don't think id call us friends but we are something that I do not know the word for.
We were married 35 years , were going steady when I was 13, him 14. We began living together at 16&17, married a week after I turned 17.