After about 30 years the X told me she filed for divorce..
X has been planning this for a while it seems..
Time for a new chapter in my world. Shop is all dismantled, that was hard on the head to do..
But time for a new place, & Lord willing I can set up a better shop.
Thank You as well.. This is happening everywhere I read. Women are initiating it by 70% according to what I read..
Better to be single & happy, that together & miserable.. I'm done with that, together & miserable.
#8
kbowley
Good lord, the stuff I've collected in my shop would take ten men and a truck to clear out, needing a full week. I hate throwing things...oh, I might need that someday...lol I have 11 tractors, 7 of them Wheel Horse's and countless attachments for them, a couple I use for mowing, A White Outdoor GT2150 and a Deere LT180, an old 71 Massey Ferguson MF7 that I bought used when I bought my first house in 1986 and it still runs great...bunch of snow blowers, push mowers, etc. etc. Tons of misc. used parts. Then there's the scrap yard for stealing parts, no idea how many machines are up there. I pity you. Divorce can be great, can be awful. I was divorced back in 2011, thank God as we were both miserable.
After about 30 years the X told me she filed for divorce..
X has been planning this for a while it seems..
Time for a new chapter in my world. Shop is all dismantled, that was hard on the head to do..
But time for a new place, & Lord willing I can set up a better shop.
My son, in his mid 20's. Great job that pays well. Just helped his g/f of about 3 years finish college. While she was going, he paid for just about everything. Including the expenses of her young daughter.
6 months after she graduated, and get's a good job, suddenly she doesn't want him.
I know how you feel
I have a soft spot for broken thinks
Everything I have was broken when I got it
It is a common "man" thing, real men fix things .
So no surprise the woman I fell for was also broken & I was stupid enough & arrogant enough to think I could fix her as well ( naturally I cold not )
So I spent my 40th birthday sitting on an esky in a rented house with my new house mates cat.
The house became known as Menopause Mannor as over the next 10 years a succession of men with marital problems ended up there .
I am sorry to hear on your break up .
Marriages like mowers require constant maintenance to keep working properly and many times life just gets in the way and of course like mowers some times they are just the wrong model for the yard .
The only advice I will proffer is to keep everything as civil as possible , accept the situation ( if it is irreversable ) and do not turn her into an enemy
I am over 70 now & have been living solo for over 30 years and in that time it has become very apparent just how much I took for granted .
We are still married BTW , officially estranged and it works for both of us .
#14
7394
Thanks both you guys, 1st rodeo for me.. It is NOT reversible, I wouldn't take her back anyhow..She initiated the whole thing. I'm not the easiest to live with. But I did my best. I did take certain things for granted, but same could be said about her.
Bert, I'm right at 70 so this whole new beginning is gonna be a lil more challenging.. Just having all my stuff in storage is hard on my mind.
Got some nice properties to view this week. Maybe I can even land a bigger shop, like full basement, with garage..Hopefully something nice soon. Properties have gotten crazy high in prices, least my old place sold extremely well. And hope this will be last move fer me.. Getting too old for this stuff.
#15
7394
Well signed papers today, offer contingent on inspections on a sweet place. Red brick home owned since new, by old lady who recently passed away.
Family wants it sold. It is so nice. Hope the accept my offer. Old neighborhood, where the mail man still brings mail up to the box at the door..
Has oversized one car, which I think I can make work. Nice piece of level land beautiful blue-grass. Be interesting figuring new lay out for my shop stuff & etc.. And still tuck in my ol chevy panel in.. But not if I ever geta Ram truck.. LOL
#16
Scrubcadet10
Good luck on the new place Buddy
#17
7394
Thanks guys.. Time will tell. They also have to accept my offer,,
#18
PTmowerMech
A note to add to my previous post.
So now after a couple of months since the sons break up, he's got his own place. He's not much of an apartment guy. But he likes it.
And the best part, he's met someone in her mid 20's, like him, who's never been married or had kids.
Like how is that possible in todays time? He and I was talking about this, and I'm thinking there's two reasons why a woman in her mid 20's has a spotless record.
1. She's a player. And she knows that most marriages fail now days. And doesn't want to get caught up in that drama.
2. She's waiting for the right guy.
If I was a betting man, I'd say #1. But I told him to follow up on it and get the skinny on her before getting his emotions tied up.
#19
7394
I don't know which one the new gal may be. Just hope your son plays it carefully..
And Congrats to him landing an apartment.. Winter is coming..
#20
7394
Well just learned my offer was accepted.. So another step forward..
#21
Scrubcadet10
Great news !!!
#22
Scrubcadet10
if you need any help moving to the new place......
Don't call me i won't be of any help. LOL