Hanging up my cleats for a while
Good luck Scott! Somehow I think you will be back when the sting of your loss abates and the boredom of sex with the Missus becomes too much to bear. Nobody would ever say that what we are doing is the right thing.even us. It does seem to be A thing to do which is less painful perhaps than chucking the family for a whole new life and uncharted waters. Some of us have already done that once or twice and while short term things are much more exciting, long term a new baby becomes an old baby. Where does it stop?
Your observations will be missed, Master Scott
[QUOTE=F Scott; 1376613]Gentlemen,
I truly appreciate all your helpful thoughts, observations and warnings. They have caused me to do a lot of thinking, and I have come to the conclusion that I [I]am[/I] In fact, becoming addicted to dangerous behavior.
Recent events, I. E. The baby walking in on me having dinner with the family, this obsession I have with my former employee, and hitting on the Trader Joe's artist when in all likelihood she lives in my town, show a growing pattern that I feel I just can't ignore. It's almost like I'm trying to get caught, and that would not be good.
Compound this with the reality that my ATF is gone, and I feel I need to take a big step back and recalibrate what I consider to be "normal". Thus I have cancelled my SA profile, and will turn off my burner phone and hide it until I regain a healthy desire to avoid putting myself in risky situations. If I can't resist playing with fire right now, at least I can get rid of all the matches, right?
I will keep an eye on this thread, and still welcome any pm's from my brothers, but I probably will not have much to add, unless an earlier baby story becomes relevant. Thank you all for your help on this. I'm a little sad, but I know I did the right thing.
More than ever, keep up the good work, and don't forget to write!
Scott[/QUOTE]As others have said, you're input and insights will be greatly missed. I hope you can find that 'happy median' between the risk and reward of all this and come back with new adventures sometime soon. For now, maybe it is time to take a pause and borrow Yoda's advice: "Meditate on this I must.".
Golf is the only safe addiction.
I agree with Scott's decision to step back. I thought he was pushing the envelope pretty hard and remained quiet in spite of 100% encouragement. Scott knows my views well enough to know I do not support emotional attachment, and would not have supported a decision to take a woman he knows as a SB because such a woman is able to find him and his associates. There was no point for me to shoot my mouth off then.
There is now. This is about the evening Scott was dining with his wife at a restaurant. A former SB and her elderly date happened to enter and took a table behind Scott. Scott described for us his intense internal reactions to the former SB being there [I]none of which did the wife pick up on due to Scott's suppression of all appearances[/I] (my characterization of his words).
The reason I see a point now is time has passed since that evening. Scott can determine for himself if he has seen signs my thoughts ring true.
Here goes: I don't buy any of it. We all know mothers love their children more. That must have a meaning vis-à-vis the husband. Mothers give unconditional love; for wives it is conditional. That's why mothers are secure in their own skin and wives are not. That's why wives never really trust their man, not really, and have and rely on that sixth sense as confirmation.
I do not buy that Scott's wife did not sense the change in him when the baby walked in. I bet that sense kicked in and remains in her stomach today. I bet Scott will see signs of it going forward. I bet Scott is being observed closer now than before. Time will tell. Of course I could be wrong.