Hey guys, not sure if this is the right place for this, but I just wanted to share my story.
After the Army I stayed in Germany and eventually married my girlfriend in 2007. We were happy, I guess... making things work. I started working full time and she finished her studies but struggled to find full-time employment. We had kids in 2010 and 2014 respectively. I can firmly point to having kids as the turning point in our relationship.
See, because I had started working and was making a rather meteoric rise through the ranks (I'm not rich, though), I suspect my ex-wife became a little jealous that I was bringing home the lion's share of the income. On it's surface, that's not a bad thing, because it drove her to strive for more, but she didn't think of how difficult it would be working and having kids. My son was born in 2010. For the next few years I actually started to hate coming home, largely because when I did, I'd get the screaming baby shoved in my face, as if she were saying to me "now you can finally do something useful today!" and ever since then she's resented the fact that she's the stay-at-home mom and I was off working, but that didn't stop her (us, I guess) from wanting #2. Things did actually improve greatly once my son was off in daycare and kindergarten. Our daughter was born in 2014, and that's when shit really start to fall apart.
I was doing better than ever in my career, but she was at home juggling the kids and trying to simultaneously fulfill her desire to be the strong career woman she's been told to be. It got worse around the house to the point where I just pretty much receded completely. I went to work. I came home. I slept. I woke up. I went back to work.
Fast forward to 2016 and things are hanging on by a thread when I find out there's someone else, at which point I pack my bags and leave. This woman had told me for the past 10 years that cheating is the most horrible thing and made me promise never to do it, which I obliged because I'm an honorable man. Little did I know.
At first I was angry because I felt like I had just gotten cucked. Which I did, I suppose. But it's 2018 now, I'm looking at an impending major promotion at work, I've got my own place, set up the way I want it, and I'm slowly learning to improve myself.
Meanwhile, those two chucklefucks are still a couple and they even moved in together. Lately I've come to the realization that he is, in fact, the cuck. He's something like 25, she's 34, divorced with two kids. They have no future together, but they keep plodding along as if something's actually gonna happen. He will probably one day want to have kids of his own, but I know for a fact that she won't play ball.
Meanwhile I've fallen ass-backwards upon a 24 year old girl who's in an open relationship with her boyfriend. Basically, she's happy living with him and sharing her life with him, but she suspects him of being asexual or something, because he's got such a low sex drive. Enter me.
So we hook up on a semi-regular basis and have crazy-ass sex on the bed I paid cash for with crazy-ass sex in mind. No commitment. No relationship. Just friends with benefits, and it's fucking great.
I'm listening to Patrice O'Neal, Tom Leykis and pretty much everything else that's got the MGTOW label on it on Youtube and trying to soak as much of it up as I can while trying to be the best man and father to my kids as I can be.
TL;DR Just another story about how marriage sucks, isn't for men, etc.. and how being single is great
WoodWizzy87 6y ago
Wanna see how western society has indoctrinated women. Look at your ex lol. She’s absolutely unhappy that you bring home all the money and despises being a stay at home mom.... which is what TRP says to do if you want a healthy relationship.
Victim mindset, she could’ve done research “why do I feel like this”?, could’ve started a business at home to work on while with the kids and sell stuff out of the house, etc.
salamihawk 6y ago
You know, she actually tried setting up her own business from home. And I was totally on board with it. I sank hundreds of hours of my own time helping her, getting the website up and running (it was fucking beautiful) with company email for her and her business partner and all that shit, but it wasn’t enough. She wound up walking away from that to do refugee work. That’s where she met Mr. Homewrecker.
WoodWizzy87 6y ago
Good riddance man, you bang that 24 year old like the hot slut she is. Single and can do whatever you want now
salamihawk 6y ago
Dude, I just found this clip from Bill Burr and it’s a perfect fuckin fit to my story:
https://youtu.be/d3hnbJK3-4g
Even Bill doesn’t know what to do
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Dude, you shoulda broke your bitch down like a pimp. Then nexted her if she acted up. Firmly told her to stay at home and take care of the kids as her #1 priority, and if she does that well, then she earns the ability to have a career, as long as the kids and house and YOU are taken care of FIRST. Remind her how damn important her role is. She is basically holding down the fort while you go out and collect resources. AND shes raising a couple kids into full grown adults at the same time, AND keeping your belly full and your balls empty!! Thats so important! Praise her for her good efforts every day (positive reinforcement), and appreciate her. If she does something wrong, just encourage her to do the right thing, and reward her when she does the right thing. If she doesnt agree to this then next the bitch.
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Pastelitomaracucho 6y ago
Don't get married. Don't have kids.
It is this easy.
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Orbiter45 6y ago
I knew a couple just like that. The husband even bought a house with one of his wives toys. Moved in a second one, three guys, because the husband was "asexual."
Turns out, as soon as a gal came by, that valued him, he had a sex drive. He left, moved across the country, and had a baby boy, with a new life entirely.
Its an extreme beta mode. Denouncing your sex drive for a relationship. The dude probably really has a sex drive, but thinks she isn't really interested in him, so plays this grey area of relationship/gay-best-friend.
He's getting a replacement mother in exchange for his balls.
Mathew_F 6y ago
Big red flag is someone who “struggles to find full time employment”
AlQWEffos239 6y ago
Just know that she’s saying shit behind your back to the children causing them to hate you, mostly your daughter for most likely do the rest of her life and your son probably depending on if he starts thinking with logical rather than emotion.
salamihawk 6y ago
I know I said I don’t trust her, but I trust her enough that she’s not gonna fuck with her own children like that. We have 50/50 custody and it’s gonna stay that way. If she tries to change that, I will fight her tooth and nail. She doesn’t want to fight that fight with me. She needs me to be there, because she’s incapable of handling the children on her own and her dipshit boyfriend certainly isn’t lifting a finger to do anything, nor is it his place.
Gozsayin1 6y ago
Dude praying isn't going to be enough, I would bet my left but she's already started bad mouthing. The best thing u can do is just show your a great guy and grabbing a few plates to make her jelly wouldn't hurt either
AlQWEffos239 6y ago
Just pray that it doesn’t happen, u never truly know what she’s saying to the kids. I grew up with a community where all the mums were either single or separated and all the children ( including me) hated their fathers. In kids eyes the mother did nothing wrong it’s all the fathers fault. It took me 21 years to accept my dad as my dad not some scum that ran off and married 4 other women.
Westernhagen 6y ago
How often did you actually see your dad? Was it an "every other weekend" kind of situation? I'm wondering how much difference 50/50 custody would make in the kid's attitudes and ability to resist mom's hate-propaganda.
AlQWEffos239 6y ago
From the ages of 1-8 we lived as a family, at 8 my family moved to New Zealand and my dad and brother stayed back due to religious reasons. Then my dad started marrying chicks, 3 be exact. Around 12 mum paid some migration lawyer to bring them over, at the day of departure, he manipulated my brother and told him the flight is tomorrow not today. Causing my brother to attempt suicide at the age of 15. That’s why my mum started playing with my brothers and sister emotions forcing us to hate him. Til this day my brothers and sisters don’t avoid his phone calls.
WholesomeAwesome 6y ago
Did you dna test those kids?
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salamihawk 6y ago
Wow... I didn't expect this kind of a response, I'm shocked! I know 70 upvotes on Reddit is child's play, but it means a lot to me, so thanks guys!
Just thought I'd throw out a few follow-up details about my situation, in case anyone was interested: We actually separated in the summer of 2016. A year earlier in 2015 I had gotten a vasectomy. She refused to get her tubes tied and we sure as shit weren't going to have any more kids. In retrospect, it was the best decision I ever made. I can rest easy now knowing that I'll never be able to fall into the baby trap again!
However, at the time I was a fucking wreck. For about two months straight I'd spend my time at work scouring the internet for apartments. I'd literally sit there some days on the verge of bursting out in tears wondering what the fuck I was going to do next. Living in a foreign country meant I couldn't just go home so I had to find a place for myself. I couldn't really rely on any of my friends, since they were mostly friends-through-her, because I never had a social life here in Germany outside of the context of being with her. In the end I found what's basically a perfect bachelor pad: about 645 ft² (60m² for us here in Europe) for a pretty decent price. It's split maybe 60/40 into two rooms.
My bedroom is absolutely massive. I have a giant boxspring bed that's comfortable to sleep in and rock-solid to fuck in. My living room is also nicely sized and has wide open space and a small kitchen with a bar on one wall.
Shortly after moving out in September 2016, I started going to the gym, which made me feel better, but shit was so chaotic with my financial situation that I had to go full-on austerity, which meant cutting all extraneous expenditures, including my gym membership.
Now that things are stabilized and I actually kinda feel bad for just vegging out at home, I may reactivate it, but I may start out slow with a regimen of push-ups, sit ups and jogging to get myself into that kind of mindset. I hate gyms and I hate working out, but I realized today that I could probably hack my laziness by thinking of it this way: I work 8 hours a day for The Man and have the rest of the day off. Maybe if I dedicate 1-1.5 hours for working for/on myself, I could find the proper motivation.
I'm finally free to do the things I want to do. I've gotten into drone photography and I already have a piece of my own hanging on my wall. I bought a digital piano and I'm going to start taking formal piano lessons. These are all things I felt I could never do as the live-in errand-boy for my ex.
WholesomeAwesome 6y ago
> I was doing better than ever in my career, but she was at home juggling the kids and trying to simultaneously fulfill her desire to be the strong career woman she's been told to be.
cuz that's more important than the kids. Your choice is disgusting.
WoodWizzy87 6y ago
Yea shame on you man for having a career and being a provider like you’re suppose to do
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SKRedPill 6y ago
Are you bomb proof and do you have a second life totally planned out in the blueprints that doesn't involve your wife and kids?
The__Tren__Train 6y ago
get snipped
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PhaedrusHunt 6y ago
Enjoy it man. I have a different storyline but a lot of similarities. Two kids. Left my ex after 11 years at age 37. I had nothing left in the tank.
iknowthewhey 6y ago
Good post, thanks for sharing. I'm so happy I found this place in my 20's and can avoid making the same mistake you made. Good for you for getting out of the marriage and improving your life.
askmrcia 6y ago
Seriously. I'm in my 20s and sometimes I think I had it bad when it came to women but they never had to go through a divorce. No telling how I would act if something like that happened to me.
That shit ain't cheap and it's hard to imagine that you spent most of your years building up your finances to only see it get screwed because of a female
comcain 6y ago
I think everyone should be required to get a divorce before they get married, just so they can see their wife at her absolute worst. I'm kidding... Sort of.
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kolluminko 6y ago
you should make a paternity test for both your kids
salamihawk 6y ago
That’s already not an issue. See, my first born was born with a genetic illness for which they did DNA screenings on all three of us. They found the markers he has which causes his condition in both our DNA, so that’s confirmed.
Also, due to the illness, our second born was an in vitro insemination, so barring any gross negligence from the university clinic in Brussels, I’m as sure as one can be that she’s mine too.
Persaeus 6y ago
AWALT, a cheating woman will always find fault with her husbands sexuality. i've had married plates tell me their husbands are gay. it's all about shifting the blame and sparring the feelz
Outside_Cookie 6y ago
The word ‘cuck’ gets used a lot lately. Many people have taken a try at describing the phenomenon, but I think all existing descriptions of ‘cuck’ miss why the point and the power of the word. They miss why ‘cuck’ is not merely a modern ‘faggot’ or ‘hippy,’ but actually something much stronger. The perfect description for a modern epidemic that is destroying our nations, our societies, and our souls.
To understand why ‘cuck’ is so powerful, we need to understand its origins and literal meaning. The word cuck is a short for cuckold, which is a man whose wife is cheating on him. More specifically, in modern usage, a cuckold is a man who KNOWINGLY ALLOWS his wife to cheat on him – either because he gains pleasure from it or because he is too weak or cowardly to stop it. But this is not the original source of ‘cuck,’ nor the one that best describes why ‘cuck’ is the perfect description for the modern age.
The term cuckold itself comes from the cuckoo bird: a bird that is a brood parasite. The cuckoo bird lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. Once the egg hatches, the young cuckoo will swiftly destroy or eat most or all of the nest’s original inhabitants. The parents of these murdered young who come back to a nest with a baby cuckoo in it will ignore the carnage, and dutifully raise the young cuckoo as if it is their own chick. Indeed, because cuckoos are often much larger than the birds whose nests they parasitize, it is possible for cucked parents to literally starve as they struggle to provide for the murderer of their real children.
In both cases, human and bird, we have a subject which has utterly abandoned the self-interest of itself and of its kin in the favor of others – often the very others who have wronged them.
You may wonder: why do cucked birds not fight back, or abandon the cuckoo? There are many reasons. Some birds seem to genuinely be unable to tell that the cuckoo is, in fact, not their own. You might think this would be a uniquely avian feature – but see human ‘cucks’ who seem completely unable to differentiate between foreigners and their own kith and kin when deciding who is deserving of aid and alliance.
Other birds are aware of the dangers cuckoo’s pose, and will try to destroy cuckoo eggs and chicks when they find them in their nests. Cuckoo birds have a strategy for dealing with this, however. Although cuckoo birds refuse to raise their own young, they are not above providing some amount of parental protection. When they find that one of their eggs has been removed from a nest they have parasitized, they immediately destroy the entire nest, and attack the smaller parents, often killing them. With such a threat hanging over their heads, it’s little wonder that small birds so strenuously provide for the cuckoo in their midst. And after all, sometimes a young cuckoo might leave one or two of the original brood alive. Imagine those young birds for a moment. Aren’t those young birds lucky to be so culturally enriched as to have a kind cuckoo brother in their nest? And although the cuckoo will take the lion’s share of the food and space in the nest, those other birds really shouldn’t be so selfish. After all, it’s not like cuckoos can build nests of their own!
In this context, it is easy to see just why ‘cuck’ is absolutely appropriate to a certain breed of today’s politicians. A cuck politician is a cuck when he or she takes pleasure in his nation’s people being cheated on. He gains political standing and a sense of moral superiority when he allows poor little cuckoo birds to roost in his nations cities and towns. A cuck politician is also a cuck because he knows that if he were ever to act against the cuckoos in his midst, he would invite disaster. Riots, terrorism, beheadings… And, of course, the approbation of his fellows cucks. Much better, in the mind of the cuck, to appease the cuckoo birds. Sure, a few of his own people might end up devoured or pushed out of the nest. But, better that than to have the nest destroyed entirely, right?
Let’s go back to nature, briefly. You may wonder if birds have any other defenses against the cuckoo menace, or if they are doomed to always raise the offspring of their enemy. In fact, they do. Some species of birds, when they discover an adult cuckoo, will form a swarm and drive the bird away or kill it. For the cuckoo is, though large, ultimately a parasite. The amount of cuckoos in a given area can never grow larger than the number of birds which it parasitizes, for the cuckoo is incapable of raising its own young.
In this context, again, we see a remarkable analogy between the modern situation and the natural world. The cuckoo nations – and let’s not pretend we don’t know who these nations are – are incapable of building their own power, or raising their own strength. The cuckoo nations will never, inside their own borders, build empires and armies and technological wonders which dwarf the rest of the world. The best they can do is to attempt to take these things from others, when they find them. And yet, the cuckoo must rely on stealth and subterfuge most of the time, for it ultimately is weaker than those it parasitizes.
See how the cuckoo operates. When it cannot win by force, it uses subterfuge. ‘Islam is a religion of peace.’ ‘Diversity is strength.’ ‘We are just like you.’ And the cuck believes them, and embraces its own destruction. For once the cuckoo gains strength, and no longer needs the cuckold, it immediately turns on them. The human cuckoos hold own hand out in supplication, while holding in their other hand a machete. Although they could never defeat the West in a straight fight, they do not have to. Merely the threat is sufficient, when a nation is run by cucks.
And our nations ARE run by cucks. Let there be no doubt about it. Cucks in both senses of the word: they refuse to recognize their enemy, and they can great pleasure in siding with him against their own countrymen. You can recognize a cuck through their signatures, ‘All people are the same, we should endeavor to help foreigners just as much as our own people.’ ‘It’s unfair for us to have so much, and them to have so little. Let us take all we have built and give it to those who have built nothing.’ This is the cuckoldry of nations, and is what is meant when a politician is called a ‘cuck.’ Elect a cuck at your peril.
But cuckoldry in the modern world goes far beyond immigration politics. Cuckoldry has become an entire mindset. The modern cuck is not a cuck only in one circumstance, but in ALL circumstances. When the modern cuck has to choose between foreigners and his countrymen, he chooses the foreigners. When the modern cuck has to choose between his race and another, he chooses the other. When the modern male cuck has to choose between men and women, he chooses women. When the modern cuck has to choose between his family and strangers, he chooses strangers. And, (of course!), when the cuck has to choose between himself and a stranger when it comes to fucking his partner, the cuck chooses the stranger!
MaximiliionPegasus 5y ago
Never choose because of race. Choose because of their mindset. I have friends of other races than mine who are great, and I also know people who will fuck their own race, while playing the race card.
Race is nothing. You do not choose your race and can't do anything about it. You do choose your mindset, you do choose your actions. So when choosing people, choose according to that.
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AllahHatesFags 6y ago
That was an excellent post. I would give you gold for it but I don't want to give reddit money.
victor_knight 6y ago
There is a reason cucks exist.
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myOnlyOtherThrowaway 6y ago
I have never seen 1 word explained this much on reddit.Knew about the bird but never that much detail damn.
askmrcia 6y ago
Lol Same, I actually read all of it because the shit was interesting.
Westernhagen 6y ago
So much of your post is about her. What she did and didn't do during the marriage, what she is doing now. At the very least, she is still occupying way too much of your mental real estate.
Your description of the failure of the marriage is all about her. Nothing about what YOU did (and didn't do) to cause the failure. Were you leading her and gaming her? Were you dominant, attractive, physically fit? Or were you a fat, boring beta who got home and flopped in front of the TV? The reason it is important to analyze your behavior and understand your mistakes is that if you don't, you'll fall into the same behaviors and make the same mistakes again with your new woman.
What are your lifts now?
salamihawk 6y ago
Yes, she occupies an inordinate amount of my mental time, mostly because I’m in constant contact with her because of the kids. I mean daily. Wake up to texts from her regularly.
I wasn’t an alpha during the marriage. Obviously. I got worn down by all the nagging, all her mental and health problems, the kids, work, etc...
I’m not too worried about getting a “new woman” because I don’t see that happening for a long time. I’m enjoying myself single too much to get caught up in another relationship.
PutItAllOnRed 6y ago
Block her texts. Unblock when you need to schedule time with the kids. Stop responding to any text that do not involve time/place pick ups and drop offs. Limit your responses to one or two words. Withdraw from the bullshit. All those text are unnecessary and are just her way of pulling on your line. My ex and I only speak when it's time to pick up and drop off. There is nothing else that needs to be said. It persist because you let it.
HeCs85 6y ago
Dude are you me?
Seriously though just from reading your post and comments on here, I feel like I'm looking into a mirror. So many parallels it's almost scary.
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AlQWEffos239 6y ago
Have u started reading the side bar?
salamihawk 6y ago
I’ve seen it and read a little. Will do more later
NYCMusicMarathon 6y ago
Be the best Dad you can be in this situation.
No bad mouthing the 34 y/o mom who has needs.
Women will fall all over you, and keep falling over you.
That is not a bad thing.
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salamihawk 6y ago
It's hard not being constantly pissed at her, though, seeing how I'm supporting her and her boyfriend with my child support money. She also refuses to call it cheating because she was unhappy in the marriage, which is infuriating and insulting to me.
I don't badmouth her in front of her or my kids, but I'm never really nice to her.
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Women will hardly ever admit they fucked up or Apologies even over the most lame argument, it doesent appear to be in their nature.. I'd say that even in a work situation as well.
[deleted] 6y ago
Fuck, so it isn't just me who has noticed this phenomenon then?
I have yet to meet a woman who has ever sincerely apologised for anything. They always add a modifier on the end of every apology to soften the blame, or deflect it on to the other person slightly. It is like they are hard wired not to take all the blame on themselves, own it and move on, like a man does.
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Self-awareness takes an ego with a structure. (Not to be confused with an inflated ego.)
JJ3314 6y ago
If she becomes truly financially destitute, and no man is willing to take the bait, she may try to come back, tail between legs, and be lovey dovey out of despiration. Be good to your kids—they didn’t deserve to have such a stupid mother, but don’t take the bait. I rather hope this young guy stays with her for a few years, before dropping her—just long enough for her to truly crash through the wall, and hopefully end up with nobody.
I know you are trying to be civil for the sake of your kids, which I agree with, but I’ll hate her on your behalf, brother.
iwaskhazard 6y ago
If you tell me you’re a fucking E5 I’m going to lose my shit, guy.
salamihawk 6y ago
I wasn’t, and I don’t quite get the significance of my former military rank to my particular life situation 12 years later.
The__Tren__Train 6y ago
welcome to 'woman logic'
PutItAllOnRed 6y ago
Proverbs 30:20 "This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, 'I've done nothing wrong.'
The__Tren__Train 6y ago
really could leave out the 'adulterous' part lol.. all women think they've never done anything wrong.
ever..
and if they did? you made them do it
HeCs85 6y ago
Dude my ex-wife said/says the exact same thing. I just recently found this sub but since my divorce and the drama attached to it I started believing that all women are backstabbing selfish bitches. Reading through this sub has just drove the point home. Being single is a million times better than being married to that idiot.
Ridicatlthrowaway 6y ago
There is a reason Tonya Harding is popular enough among women to have a autobiographical movie and featured in the upcoming Dancing with the Stars even after doing one of the most reprehensible things a human can do to a “friend”.
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Read Reverend Lawrence Shannon's book.
You agreed to all that unfairness when agreeing to marriage.
*Q. What is marriage?
A. Marriage is a contract between three parties, traditionally a man, a woman, and the state. The state reserves the right to change the conditions and obligations of the contract without permission from the other two parties. The ingredients of the contract are fragmented into both statutory and case law. The contractual agreement with the state is rather nasty and one sided, designed to pro- tect the female and her children. It gives her
rights to her husband's finances, property, and future earnings. It provides her with leverage to have him placed under restraining orders, evicted from his home, or subjected to garnishment of his wages. She may institute proceedings to have him committed to a men- tal institution.*
salamihawk 6y ago
German law is a little different. For example, I no longer pay her alimony. Child support, yes, but no vaginamony. Also, 50/50 joint custody is the default and there has to be a damn good reason for anything else. Still, she’s owed a portion of my German social security check, which sucks, but that portion is based on the time we were married, so if I suddenly become a millionaire, she doesn’t get anything extra.
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Then know you are under exceptionally good rules for you.
salamihawk 6y ago
Believe you me, I’m very grateful for that. Technically I’m still on the hook for vaginamony, but only because of the kids. She’s legally obligated to have at least a 3/4 time job, and vaginamony is based on her income too, so when I stopped paying her vaginamony, it was because she earned enough to make it practically moot. It ended up only being a few € extra, 30 or 40. If we didn’t have kids, the question of vaginamony would have been eliminated a year after our separation.
If she wanted to fuck me over (she says she doesn’t, but then again, she also said she wouldn’t cheat, so I don’t trust anything she says anymore), she’d be legally obligated to divulge to me exactly how much she makes so i can make the calculations. She’d basically have to throw herself into financial ruin in order to get more than child support out of me.
Also, there’s an upper limit to what she can extract from me based on what I earn, so I’m guaranteed a minimum monthly income, meaning she can’t force me into extreme destitution.
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Same in Canada. She actually owed my $6K in retirement savings which is a joke as I make 25% more than her and have tons more saved up than her, but during our 3 year marriage it appears I saved 100K and she saved 106K so she owed me $6K. I didn't take it though. Don't need it and don't want it.
salamihawk 6y ago
Good man. I wouldn’t have taken it either. In fact, I told my ex wife that she could keep the entire deposit on our old apartment, but she insisted on looking that gift horse in the mouth, so she will send me half anyways, even though I told her I didn’t want it.
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I am in a similar situation with a few tweaks. I am turning 40 next month and my kids are a bit older. I was actually the one that cheated after she went ice cold sexually as she retreated into full-time mommy mode. The girls were just sugar baby types with no commitment, you wife messed up by getting emotional. Rather than wanting to work, she simply refused to work. I still paid for maids and daycare while she sat on her ass watching reality TV and messing with social media trying to project an amazing life. As I have learned, women will do as little as you will let them get away with.
As upset as I am about the 15 year marriage where I made so many blue pill, "nice guy" mistakes from start to finish. As bad as it sucks to pay huge amounts of child support and alimony, I am thrilled it is over. I cannot even explain how free I feel. My kids love seeing me without a nagging woman around, we have a blast. My only regret is not pulling the plug 5 years ago. Strangely enough. When I changed my mindset, grew a backbone and started putting myself first and working on myself... my ex-wife started pulling out all of the stops sexually. I got a vasectomy without telling her. Pretty sure she was trying to get pregnant to entrap me. I would get rough and talk brutally dirty to her and she loved it and will still come around every 6 weeks when she needs to get turned out. I realized I failed the relationship by being too nice and not having a backbone from the start. I was the stereotypical "nice guy beta", raised by a single mom with only aunts and no real men around. I was a D1 athlete and looked the part of an alpha but internally I was the nice, gentle guy I was raised to be.
victor_knight 6y ago
I hear you. It happens for many reasons.
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Why did you sign a one-sided contract such as "marriage" in our matriarchal society?
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I was young, dumb, “in love” and didn’t have anyone level headed enough to talk strait with me. I will never remarry.
tteabag2591 6y ago
The cultural disdain for the SAHM is such a shame. It's effectively emotionally disarming children before they have a chance to be properly socialized and nurtured. Any married men reading this who are attempting the dual income with kids thing be warned. It's not in your favor. You've actually double fucked yourself by first marrying and then buying into the whole career woman crap. If they spend most of their time around coworkers, you'll naturally be a lower priority. You won't have enough time with each other and they'll be easy prey for men that do have the time.
Charrington84 6y ago
This should be higher up. Yet another consequence of the poison of feminism.
victor_knight 6y ago
This is very common. I think this is why.
iguy22 6y ago
what's with these fucking videos?
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PutItAllOnRed 6y ago
when you sound like a classic neckberd in real life and you don't wanna get doxxed, text to speech is an improvement.
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Indeed, he is her new footstool — not that she would get more than that to "commit" (read: to let her use him).
U-94 6y ago
Before the days of reddit, I would go to a bar and hear these stories from old men. Made me the never married, successful, stress free dude I am today.
Morphs_ 6y ago
Yeah I'm 37 yo but I have an extremely hard time thinking I'll ever walk that path. There are some successful marriages around me (like my sister) but those are only a couple of years old.
Never got to living together with a gf, too big of a step. Now I understand why it would destroy all sexual attraction.
Oh and having had a BPD gf last year definitely helps in swallowing the pill.
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