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re: Getting separated after 32 years - where to find a roommate?

Posted on 3/4/25 at 1:21 pm to
Posted by Willie Stroker
Member since Sep 2008
14468 posts
Posted on 3/4/25 at 1:21 pm to
Do you need to stay in your current city?

Are there empty nesters friends that can offer up a room?
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
9995 posts
Posted on 3/4/25 at 1:27 pm to
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empty nesters friends that can offer up a room?


Not for more than a week. What a horrible idea. Trauma dump city.
Posted by DCtiger1
Member since Jul 2009
10154 posts
Posted on 3/4/25 at 1:43 pm to
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She might begin to see you in a new light if you stand your ground and refuse to walk away from a life you helped build. You sound highly passive and that is a terrible combination with a narcissist. If you don't want to change yourself, ok, but if you just want a better life, what have you got to lose?


I’m not understanding sacrificing any happiness you have left in life to stay married in name only because of religion. Not only that, but a doctrine of a specific religion, which is not based in scripture.
Posted by Tiger Prawn
Member since Dec 2016
23818 posts
Posted on 3/4/25 at 1:48 pm to
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and less occasions for her to call me to fix something at the house.
Why are you going to fix things at the house she gets to keep? Unless you’re getting arse or cash for your troubles, the maintenance on her house isn’t your problem anymore.

I wouldn’t want to deal with roommates in my 50’s. Either look for a studio apartment or look on FB marketplace for someone with a house that has a small efficiency unit or guest house that they’re trying to rent
Posted by rickyh
Positiger Nation
Member since Dec 2003
12682 posts
Posted on 3/4/25 at 1:49 pm to
Cheaper to keep her.
Posted by Dadren
Jawja
Member since Dec 2023
2474 posts
Posted on 3/4/25 at 1:54 pm to
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I’m not understanding sacrificing any happiness you have left in life to stay married in name only because of religion.

Yeah this is kind of where I am.

I do understand and empathize with where the OP is coming from, but he’ll be divorced in every sense of the word except on paper. It feels like “keeping the box checked so I can say I’m following the rule” instead of living by a spiritual principle (which is what the intent of the rule is).
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
82735 posts
Posted on 3/4/25 at 1:55 pm to
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I’m not understanding sacrificing any happiness you have left in life to stay married in name only because of religion.



nope

quote:

he’ll be divorced in every sense of the word except on paper


yep
Posted by Ricardo
Member since Sep 2016
5723 posts
Posted on 3/4/25 at 1:57 pm to
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but I'd rather live in a single wide in the woods of LP


That's my life goal.
Posted by Red Stick Tigress
Tiger Stadium
Member since Nov 2005
18899 posts
Posted on 3/5/25 at 3:55 am to
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I don't plan to divorce.


Get an annulment.

You can do it after years of marriage and even if you have adult aged children.
Posted by KLSU
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2003
10715 posts
Posted on 3/5/25 at 4:56 am to
If I were married for 32 years and getting a divorce and she told me she wanted the house only I’d take that in a heartbeat. I’d lose way more in cash, savings, retirement, and investments.
Posted by Tvilletiger
PVB
Member since Oct 2015
5732 posts
Posted on 3/5/25 at 5:00 am to
I have been divorced for 10 years and I still feel some obligation to the mother of my children. I would help her if she needed something done at the house. It took years to think this way and also to not try and talk ourselves out of the divorce. There was a time though that we hit for over it. Would not think twice if she asked for help.
Posted by HattiesburgTiger5439
Hattiesburg ms
Member since Sep 2023
664 posts
Posted on 3/5/25 at 5:08 am to
Plenty of fish, Ashley Madison, or just got get a hotel room that rents weekly. Just watch out bc those kinds of hotels are pretty trashy for the most parts. Or a nice small air B and B tiny house
Posted by HattiesburgTiger5439
Hattiesburg ms
Member since Sep 2023
664 posts
Posted on 3/5/25 at 5:14 am to
Bad idea buddy, I know you think not doing the divorce isnt worth it but when its over its over. Better to just get it over with now rather than later.i know its easier said that done. But eventually she will be worse than the devil and try and frick you over real good especially if you meet another woman by chance and then she will destroy you
Posted by HattiesburgTiger5439
Hattiesburg ms
Member since Sep 2023
664 posts
Posted on 3/5/25 at 5:27 am to
The best women on the planet are nut jobs. A woman that is your best friend in the world, the woman who backs you and makes you a better man all the way around in everyway is still a hormonal, emotional, lunatic at times. Women are just different and wired differently in everyway. For the most part men are simple we mean what we say, live by simple rules. Football,Fun,fricking, Fishing, Fun, Hunting,Cars or whatever hobby you enjoy! We mean what we say and are like Pines Trees. Just straight up with hardly any limbs or problems for the nost part.
Women are like giant Oak Trees limbs and problems everywhere, they expect you to be a mind reader and most have control issues, etc etc. They also like to frick just as much as a man. The only difference is we put notches on our belt and they get called whores. The ONLY way you find out if a woman is cheating is if she wants you to find out most of the time. Marriage is hard and its like a full time job.
For all you gamers or the men that dont work at your Marriage you may want to get a room with Jibeaux.
Most women believe that romance novels and all the happy couples on fb or whatever platform is real life.
You sacrifice time if your a good husband and good provider. They feel alone etc. Anyway thats what i learned from my first marriage
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
9995 posts
Posted on 3/5/25 at 6:47 am to
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I still feel some obligation to the mother of my children. I would help her if she needed something done at the house

This is what alimony and child support is for, assuming you mean more than replacing light bulbs and filters.
Posted by NorthGwinnettTiger
Member since Jun 2006
52582 posts
Posted on 3/5/25 at 6:50 am to
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after 32 years


quote:

find a roommate


frick that shite.
Posted by thelawnwranglers
Member since Sep 2007
40402 posts
Posted on 3/5/25 at 6:51 am to
Why are you leaving the domicile do you talk to sn attorney
Posted by Ponchy Tiger
Ponchatoula
Member since Aug 2004
47497 posts
Posted on 3/5/25 at 7:16 am to
Do you have land?

Get a prefab shed and finish the inside making a tiny house.
Posted by Bayou
Boudin, LA
Member since Feb 2005
38988 posts
Posted on 3/5/25 at 7:29 am to
Have you been introduced to Manuela Palmas?
Posted by Pilot Tiger
North Carolina
Member since Nov 2005
73523 posts
Posted on 3/5/25 at 7:43 am to
1. talk to an attorney and seriously consider getting divorced. At the very least get as much information as possible to make the best possible decision for you.

2. avoid getting a roommate

3. If you haven't already done so, go to the gym or start some kind of exercise routine that you can do everyday to improve your overall physical health. It will also do wonders for your mental health.

4. Find some things you are interested in or passionate about and use it as a way to meet people and develop healthy friendships.

5. I'm sorry you are in this position. We never imagine we'll get there but some of us inevitably do. The good thing is you can use this to reclaim your life as your own. When the dust settles over the next year or couple of years you will look back amazed at how far you've come

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