If I don’t buy my wife something, she won’t cook dinner, do laundry or have sex.
I met my wife in college. We have been married for 40 years and have two adult sons. My wife had a brief affair early in our marriage, but we have long since moved on from that. However, increasingly over the last 15 years, my wife has been aggressively making demands in exchange for anything she does for me -- i.e., if I don’t buy her something, she won’t cook dinner, do laundry or have sex.
Two years ago, I met a younger woman. She is also married, although separated. She still shares a home with her husband and their two children. We meet as often as we can and I find her delightful and easy to get along with. Lately, she has been saying she wants us to leave our situations and get married.
Because you are older, are you physically and emotionally ready and able to help her raise her children? Is she aware that, in addition to her children, she might also at some point have to become YOUR caregiver? Please do not jump from the frying pan into the fire. These are important questions that may take some time to resolve.A few months after I returned to work from maternity leave, a co-worker mentioned that our boss’s father had died while I was away.
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