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Another thing worth looking into...have you considered consulting? I don't know your experience but I frequently get inquiries from consulting firms that will pay more than twice my current salary and you travel/work mon-thurs with 3 day weekends and can live anywhere. Might be a great option for you to stay where you are yet make a great living. Then you'd have weekends free to spend with your son (presumably every other if you separate/divorce). Just a thought.
Thank you for all your great responses. They were all thought out and considerate but I'm not a runaway dad nor am I being selfish.
What I might end up doing is maybe just stay here and find a girlfriend on the side. My wife actually said it was ok. Now before all you moms out there go crazy. She refuses to get intimate and has been that way for many years. What am I to do? Spend the rest of my life with a women who has no interest whatsoever in intimacy period? How fair is that to me? I'm still in my early 30s.
Thank you for all your great responses. They were all thought out and considerate but I'm not a runaway dad nor am I being selfish.
What I might end up doing is maybe just stay here and find a girlfriend on the side. My wife actually said it was ok. Now before all you moms out there go crazy. She refuses to get intimate and has been that way for many years. What am I to do? Spend the rest of my life with a women who has no interest whatsoever in intimacy period? How fair is that to me? I'm still in my early 30s.
If I were a religious person, I'd be praying for the girlfriend.
Thank you for all your great responses. They were all thought out and considerate but I'm not a runaway dad nor am I being selfish.
What I might end up doing is maybe just stay here and find a girlfriend on the side. My wife actually said it was ok. Now before all you moms out there go crazy. She refuses to get intimate and has been that way for many years. What am I to do? Spend the rest of my life with a women who has no interest whatsoever in intimacy period? How fair is that to me? I'm still in my early 30s.
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Thank you for all your great responses. They were all thought out and considerate but I'm not a runaway dad nor am I being selfish.
What I might end up doing is maybe just stay here and find a girlfriend on the side. My wife actually said it was ok. Now before all you moms out there go crazy. She refuses to get intimate and has been that way for many years. What am I to do? Spend the rest of my life with a women who has no interest whatsoever in intimacy period? How fair is that to me? I'm still in my early 30s.
Why is she refusing intimacy? I've known a couple who were like that. Turned out the husband had found a girlfriend outside of the marriage, so the wife stopped sleeping with him and would rarely, if ever, kiss him.
Their marriage was and is simply in place so they could raise their daughter. It's sad seeing them together. They are friends of mine and they both get along with my wife, but you can see the sadness in her eyes.
First, you are a runaway dad and second I'm pretty sure you're making this up Got to love these first time posters, they are imaginative. Okay, skepticism aside, how can a rational person interpret you leaving an 11 year child as anything other than abandonment?
Thank you for all your great responses. They were all thought out and considerate but I'm not a runaway dad nor am I being selfish.
What I might end up doing is maybe just stay here and find a girlfriend on the side. My wife actually said it was ok. Now before all you moms out there go crazy. She refuses to get intimate and has been that way for many years. What am I to do? Spend the rest of my life with a women who has no interest whatsoever in intimacy period? How fair is that to me? I'm still in my early 30s.
You express ZERO concern for your son and I'm not sure if maybe he's just better off with you somewhere far away.
I don't understand why you don't just divorce and stay somewhere within reasonable driving distance from your son.
But that makes too much sense!
From my reading it seems the OP has only hit the glass ceiling but is still employed, making a good salary. He probably fears a major financial hit if they divorce and he's saddled with a 50% loss, plus child support. Taking a mistress is a temporary fix. Eventually something has to give way.
Since he's still young, he should get his divorce and rebuild his life now. I'm not condoning his attitude, just making a suggestion.
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Got to love these first time posters, they are imaginative. Okay, skepticism aside, how can a rational person interpret you leaving an 11 year child as anything other than abandonment?
