Girlfriend or Teener?, Which hurts more? Options

[avidfanjpl]

My girlfriend of 15 months threw in the towel. Personal health and family issues and peripheral things......not directly me, which was kind to hear, and yes, to some degree, I believe her.

It is tough to get past the great companionship things we had. She even went with me to get my car last May to Portland. That may have been one of the great events we had together. 1,500 miles down the West Coast to get home to OC.

If she changes her mind, I would probably be OK with restoring things. We never did fight at all, and almost not any disagreement. Menopause is TOUGH. Tough enough to kill off even a pretty good thing.

But.............here is another REALLY interesting thing!

I dropped my car off today at Cooper Boggs for a real undercarriage cleaning. 16 hours, plus a glaze when done.

I went down to the garage when I got home with the car 8 miles away, and I was REALLY lost. I mean, LOST!

I am sitting here like a ball lost in tall weeds.

On top of that, the car is on a big lift, and we had a 5.4 quake in SoCal today when I got home. I was thinking about WHAT while my place was rockin???.......................MY CAR!

I did have sort of a premonition about the quake, and thought, gee, the car is 6 feet off the ground.

It is fine, being one of those expensive outside tower lifts with 4 doughnut pads.

But, I didn't even think of anything but the car.

I AM ONE HARDNOSED SOB, and I am glad the exgalpal DOES NOT know how to log onto 914World.

What does that tell you about this teener?

It may be displacement theory, but I am wandering around thinking of projects and work on Orangina when she gets back to me on Monday, or sooner. Hope I have her for Sunday!

AND NO MORE QUAKES TILL ORANGINA GETS HOME ALL CLEAN AND READY FOR 100MPH!!

John
avidfanjpl

[corsepervita]

Totally agreed. I found out the hard way. I got divorced at a VERY early age only to find out the hard way.

I could not be happier. I love my wife to death. She's an amazing woman and I am thankful every day I wake up to have her in my life.

Funny how that works on that whole "Hindsight is 20/20" thing. Seems to only work and you learn things only after the whole experience is over.

However, my divorce taught me a lot of things. I mean... not only did I learn what kind of person she was, but what I was, how things can go wrong, what should go right, how to learn from it all and move on, and that life DOES go on and get better.

Not to mention I could just about be a lawyer from writing up so many legal documents since we didn't get lawyers and I had to do all the papers (we did a co-petition), so hey I even learned a little about law! Go me.

But in all seriousness, joking aside, I'm a happy man.