Similar sorry here although number 2 hasn’t come along yet! It’s true though, sometimes people grow apart and it takes guts to say this isn’t working and we’d be happier apart. Glad No2 is working out for you!
Yeah, my Vet buddy and his wife just had their second baby. Wednesday She's so damn pretty. They got their baby boy last year in August after 16 years of trying. They were high school sweethearts. They've stayed together with all the struggles they both have had to endure from his time in the military and the physical problems from that service.
I'm a bit envious of them. I only had one girl in High school that I
really had a crush on. I never really acted on it. We dated a few times casually. That only made the infatuation more strong. There was only one thing that held me back from taking things further. My Dad knew her Mom very well. She was very naive and a guy got her pregnant and left. She was a teller at the local bank, so Dad saw her often. Her Mom passed away from giving birth and she was put up for adoption. Luckily she was adopted by a lovely woman that was a young teacher that ended up being my first grade teacher and the girl was in the class. Her new Mom let her know from early on that she was adopted and that she was chosen.
We liked each other from the very beginning. When the attraction went beyond friendship, I asked Dad about her Mom and family. I always wondered why no one in her family didn't take her when her Mom died. It seems that her Grandma passed when giving to her Mom. Adolescent hormonal emotions are almost NEVER logical. In my mind at the time, I didn't think I could stand losing her in childbirth and having the baby to remind me of my lost love. Yeah. stupid ass Adolescent hormonal emotions! Looking back, all my prolific(IE whoring) dating afterwards, was a search to fill that void. I think it was sitting there in the back of my head all my life.
There's the old saying, by Tennyson, "Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all." I can say that in retrospect and wonder what could have been. But I DO know I wouldn't have my sons. And I'm good with that.
It just would have completed this life of mine to have been the subject of or the giver of the ultimate act of love by being there when your loved one leaves this world.
I was so grateful that I could be with my Dad when he passed, despite my damn sisters being there and prolifically lying to their Dad on his deathbed.
OK!!!!...................All of George Carland's curse words you can never say....................time to dive in to work and not having to think about 'stuff'! LOL!