[ SECRET POST #7028 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7028 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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04. [WARNING for discussion of rape/sexual assault]




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Comments

Re: If you've ever had and left a shitty relationship, did you ever get over it and want to try agai

[(Anonymous)]

I know it’s not the same thing, but I’ve heard very similar things from some friendly acquaintances whose spouses have died. (After they’ve moved through most of the grief.)

Those weren’t even bad relationships, they just involved a lot of compromise and sacrifice and constraints. I see them feeling this sense of freedom for the first time in decades and I think they don’t want to give it up. One especially seemed to do half-hearted dating because that’s what widows her age are supposed to do, but it’s becoming clearer and clearer to me that she isn’t actually interested.

As an aromatic confirmed bachelor, I empathize with the feeling, but that’s been my normal for a long time.

Re: If you've ever had and left a shitty relationship, did you ever get over it and want to try agai

[(Anonymous)]

aromantic, damn it

Re: If you've ever had and left a shitty relationship, did you ever get over it and want to try agai

[(Anonymous)]

Ok but that is a hilarious misspell

Re: If you've ever had and left a shitty relationship, did you ever get over it and want to try agai

[(Anonymous)]

I've heard similar things as well. It's usually from older women who love their husbands and all, but they've spent so much of their adult lives being a wife and mother that it nearly consumed them. They've never had a chance to be an adult who is free, who sees to their own needs first without having to hold back or do without or settle for less just so their kids/husbands could benefit. It might be their first chance to regularly sleep in, choose their own daily schedule, eat what they want, pursue a hobby, meet with friends, etc. all on their own. I don't blame them for not wanting to get back on the relationship carousel.