I don't have such a great love life. Divorced and moved to NYC around the millenium, was lucky enough to fall in love again. But she called off the wedding six weeks before the big day. That was expensive (lost deposits, wasted $$ on invitations, dresses, $16K ring, et al), but it's just money, you can always make more. Pretty tough on a personal level, though, and to be honest I was never the same.
5-6 years ago - about a year or two after I got dumped - I was banging this average looking broad just because it was convenient, didn't take much effort, she was way more into me than I was to her, etc. Then I got sick - not life threatening sick, but it was a debilitating illness. Knocked me out of work for several months, and I spent six months in physical therapy learning how to walk again. That average looking gal came over often, brought me food, medicine, whatever I needed. It didn't make me fall in love with her, but I was grateful.
Well, sheeet, one time after she made me chicken noodle soup we had teh seks. I was pretty much fatigued all the time at that point - too damn tired to get up and walk across the room to grab a condom, and so few things were working on my body I think I kind of figured I must be shooting blanks, nothing else was working the way it should. Of all the dumb luck - she was supposed to be on the pill, I never went bareback except that one time. Whatevs. She didn't tell me about it, but a few months later I heard she was preggo. So I did the right thing and told her I would be supportive and stick with her.
Most of my friends were telling the opposite - GTFO, she's a lunatic, and they were right. But I could never do that. My daughter, now 4-1/2, she's amazing. Couple of you are friends with me on FB and you know how much I adore her. It never quite worked out between me and her mom, but that's alright, no regrets - I'm constantly humbled and amazed to be her poppa. I've got a boy who is 10 years older, and those two are the best things that ever happened to me.
Her mom and I tried to make it work for awhile, but we're oil and water, I never got over the old fiancé, and I was never really into her. But I tried. One of the last major blowouts we had (3 years ago) before we called it quits, she was ragging on me about posting her pictures online. Now, I only posted pics of my toddler/princess...but it was on her Picassa account, and I guess she had the view settings to public. So if someone looked at that picture of my daughter, they could snoop around the folders and see what other pics were there.
I kind of forgot about the argument.
Found this today.
Amazing, huh? I go to that place about once a year. The guy who started that thread, I think I've interacted with him once in the 7-8 years I've been here (in GMTAN, a few years back, philosophical disagreement about alimony - and that was a good 18 months AFTER he post:e:d that). So I just had an epiphany...dug around the innerwebs, found out you used to not be able to know who was looking at your Picassa page, but then they changed it so you could see if someone linked to your pics. When we had that big blowout 3 years ago, Shirley (daughter's mother) was in tears because people on the internet were making fun of her.
Now I don't give two sheeets about what morons have to say about me or my daughter's mother. Her reaction to me - whatever, it wasn't the tipping point, it was just another dot on the continuum, we were never going to make it. But you know what else she did, besides pick a fight with me? She stopped sending pictures of my daughter back to my family.
You guys might remember when my mom passed in October, 2011. I posted about it here in GMTAN.
So the last 20 months my mother was alive, she missed seeing hundreds of photos and videos of my daughter. Oh, I would take a few and send them to her, but prior to being cutoff, my daughter's mom would post like 60 photos and a half dozen videos on her Picassa album every couple weeks. All that stopped cold because of that thread I linked above.
It takes a special kind of internet ##### to #### with somebody's personal life in a devastating manner. Congrats, Drifter, you got that going for ya.
ETA: advised bypassing the language filter is not a wise move