Putting it back together

My ex has started getting out, going away for weekends, after years close to home. I’ve been going on regular holidays with my girlfriend, and other friends. Ex says “maybe we could go on a holiday sometime, we had good holidays”. How to explain that i cannot relax with her any more?

Sub-bass sun

"bad experiences around reproductive care"... Or for a couple of horrific conspiracy theory friends of mine, being sexually abused by a trusted person when you were a small child. Trust broken forever.

I was naked at little Congwong today, with a woman. We moved down the beach because a man was staring at her. A very gay man.
Don't stare, men, even if you are gay!

I always believed that we could love more than one person, fully and generously. When my partner tried it, I believed in it - to my own destruction. Outside of that marriage I have discovered the joy of sex, and of sexting.

My girlfriend loves me. I love her. 20 years ago I would have thought it crazy for two people who love each other not to live together. But she’s lived alone for 20 years and I’ve lived with my wife for 20 years and we’re both not ready. It’s a waste of real estate in a crowded city though.

Sit in a bar at midnight. Say "my ex has the kids this week" in that situation maturity is not a thing

This shitpost will have to go through the ethics committee. It'll probably be pass, but best to be sure

If you don't want them to have a funeral when you're gone, at least encourage them to have a wake

Yes. An affair is two consenting adults who know that one (or both) are already in a relationship. Fucking a sex slave is not an "affair".

I'm with all the people who say he was a gentleman and did the right thing. But you can always say "would you like a blanket or would you like me to warm you up" without being creepy.
... If you realise

I'm planning a two night hike in a couple of weeks, over the mountains from Sydney. We chose the weekend for (almost) no moon. Maximum star-clouds

It seems childish to feel “brave” because you threw some old things in the bin. But they were significant once, and if she knew she’d be pretty angry.

English is actually a very cool language. It’s just overused and people take its quirks for granted which is a shame

This happened to me too. I bit the bullet and paid a professional cleaner. Took everything off the walls, put all her stuff in boxes. Thought it would be hard after living with her/stuff for 20 years, but it gave me space to reinvent myself

That was a turning point. It was new years day, and I started feeling OK about the relationship with that new year. I will always be in debt to that friend

Maybe people were getting richer, could afford butter and date nights?

It's also not necessary, as shown by lots of functioning democracies whose leaders aren't always accusing the voting of being rigged

I saw an old friend. She asked about the breakup. “How long were you together?” “25 years” … pause … “Well that sounds like a successful relationship to me.”

I have a friend who dumped a lovely man for holding his cutlery wrong. I think she's never left someone for a reason I thought fair.

At work (IT). Waited for the inevitable "google results are so shit" conversation. Said "I switched to Kagi a few months ago". Put a link in the chat. One of them is paying for Kagi now.

My ex-partner had a rant about the small ways I had failed her - not putting the bins out, not wiping down the bench. Those things all seemed so punitive, when I was doing so much already, and working in an office all day while she hung out at home or the pub.

At 20 I learnt from Solzhenitsyn to always tell the people you love that you love them. In my 30s I found it's easier to bury your parents if your last words to each other were “i love you”. In my 50s I learnt that a person can leave you no matter how much you love them or how often you say it.

I want to be wanted. I do not need to be needed.

She used to be so smart, that girl I married. Not any more. Maybe the menopause is messing with her mind. Or maybe she’s just losing her sight and her hearing, and is too proud to admit it, and is desperately guessing what’s going on.

This week I found out that Facebook has been suggesting to my ex-wife and my girlfriend that they should be friends. They’re in a mexican standoff, both ignoring the suggestion.

It's hard to have satisfying sex with someone much smaller than you. Unless, I guess, you are really small.

I can't help thinking that all of Epsteins friends must have had tiny dicks. And not much libedo.

Trigger warning : bad taste paedophile discussion
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I am a statistically average straight man who has had sex with a few women. Size does make a difference... 🧵

A friend said “I think my relationship broke up because of shame. My husband went bankrupt. I was sorry for him, but he felt like such a failure that it broke everything.”