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- From: horntho@eng.auburn.edu (Thomas J. Horn)
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- Subject: Re: My turn?
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- Date: 23 Jan 93 19:28:06 GMT
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- In article 105@geovision.gvc.com, pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin) writes:
-
- > [interesting account of the death of a marriage deleted]
- >
- > In short order, I was involved in another relationship - with a co-worker,
- > which is probably a big mistake when you consider what happens to the
- > atmosphere at work if it breaks up. In the unlikely event that any of my
- > co-workers reading this _don't_ know who I'm talking about, I'll call her
- > Kris (not her real name, of course). My company sent me to England for 6
- > months, which I thought was a good opportunity to take stock and make a
- > clean break in my life. It didn't quite work out like that - my wife and
- > kids came to visit her mother (my company pays for your family to come with
- > you if you're out of town for more than four months - I bent the rules a
- > little). Shani and I got to talking, and arguing, and the next thing I
- > know, we were having sex again - better than any time since the first year
- > of our marriage. So we decide to try marriage counselling - which we start
- > soon after I got back from England. Of course, this news hurts Kris very
- > much, and makes me feel pretty scummy - because my relationship with Kris
- > was a lot more open and honest that it had been with Shani, so I'm honestly
- > wondering to myself why I'm doing this. I guess it's mostly that Shani and
- > I have had a lot more history behind us, which is both a blessing and a
- > curse - a blessing because we have a lot of happy memories, and a curse
- > because we have a set pattern of behaviour to overcome.
-
- You yourself say that you were involved with someone else "in short order"--
- are you sure you weren't merely using "Kris" as a desperation move, a warm
- body to take the place of your wife? I'm not. If you weren't, then you wouldn't
- have been so quick to take back up with your wife, regardless of the
- circumstances. And "a lot of history behind us" is an excuse that cuts zero
- ice with 99.9% of the women in this world. Of COURSE Kris was hurt. You
- used her as a doormat.
-
- [DISCLAIMER: I am not trying to flame you. I was in a relationship about three
- years ago with a wonderful lady, and I was a jerk and did the same thing to her.
- I've been there, and it still hurts to realize what an asshole I was.]
-
- > Anyway - trying to make this incredibly long story short (ha!), the marriage
- > counselling didn't work - we're both too stuck in our ways, I bended and
- > didn't see _any_ change in behaviour in Shani, so on the counsellors advice
- > we stopped it. Meanwhile, all this time, Kris had been sending me cards and
- > letters urging me to give our relationship another chance, or asking for
- > ``right of first refusal'' if things didn't work out with Shani. So
- > naturally, I expected that I could pick things up with Kris - not
- > immediately, or right back to where we left off - I expected there to be an
- > element of mistrust, and I expected it to take time to reestablish a
- > relationship that the first time proceeded so quickly. And so it appeared,
- > until a few months ago Kris told me that she didn't think it was working
- > out, and it was time to LJBF.
-
- She is probably protecting herself. My guess is she doesn't want to be used as
- someone who you are only seeing as a last resort because you can't work things
- out with someone else. ("Well, I still love her, but you'll do...")
-
- > A long time ago, I read of a word, I believe it was ``limerant'', although I
- > can't find that word in my dictionary, that meant something like ``addicted
- > to the feeling of being in love''. I guess that would describe me - I fell
- > in love with Shani very shortly after meeting her, and we married 6 months
- > after meeting; and I fell in love with Kris very shortly after we started
- > seeing each other as friends.
-
- If you had loved her, you wouldn't have fucked around on her.
-
- > --
- > Paul Tomblin, pt@compass.gvc.com (I don't make or state policy for this company)
- > "Thanks to Hurricane Andrew, people found out what it was like to have no home,
- > no car, and no possesions without actually having to go through a divorce"
- > - Royal Canadian Air Farce.
-
-
- ---Tom
- unfortunately, "been there, done that."
-