Simply put, the fire died after 11 years. Sometimes in everyday life you get caught up in work, the daily routines, with your hang out buds, and forget about your partner. I remember in the early years that love for my ex always came first. You know the skinny diping, romantic getaways etc, well that stopped and i contributed to it. Taking your loved one for granted in essence. My ex and i BOTH contributed to that. I still care for her and have she does for me. Its just different now and we have moved on. We were more good friends in the later stages of our relationship, then we were lovers.
I loved my ex...I just didn't like her much. My decision to leave was finalized by a question I asked myself in the shower one morning. The question being, "If I wasn't married to this person...would I want to be friends with her?" The answer I got back determined my next course of action, which was to leave.
l think in my case l grew out of love with him. Theres a piece of my heart that will always be his but we cant live together. l have 2 wonderful daughters 13 and 21 so some love will always be there. He is a great dad but we just werent meant to be together, we get along better apart.
Well for me the love just fizzled out. We just had two very different views for our future and couldn't agree on anything. I feel we get along way much better now than when we were together and all of our friends and family agree as well. I have no resentment or any bad thinking whatsoever. I just knew it wasn't working out and it wasn't fair for neither one of us so it was best for us both to go our own seperate ways.
What you want at 20 is not what you want at 30 is not what you want at 40...
The best you can hope for is that your partner is "changing" in the same direction as you and you both are striving towards the same goals...if not...you have come to a fork in the road...does not mean that you don't love them...means you now want different things out of life...
What may once have been important to you might have to take a back seat as other things take its place....know what i mean??...Its a maturity thing...
after almost 10 years of marrage she tells me "I'm a lesbian".....ya I loved her......but geez feel robbed of those years.....on the lighter side.....got me a hot date tonight with someone she was jealous of......how is that for irony
Lets get one thing straight I don't love my X still Love went out window long before I went out the door I don't hate her just not in love with her anymore after her fling with her boss I think of her as a distant friend now The old saying what goes around comes around He dumped her to go back with his X
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