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Old 26th February 2012, 09:25 AM   #1
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In Need Of Urgent Help And Advice Please - What Do I Do?

Hi,

I spent last night into the small hours reading many of the threads on this forum and I really need some help and advice - I feel like I am dying inside at the moment

H and I married in 1996. We were very young, in our early 20's, and the first few years were fine, although it is fair to say we were both extremely career minded. He wanted to have children back then, but I loved my job so much I didn't want to, and to be honest in my 20's the thought of having children wasn't even on my radar.

His parents divorced when he was little as his Dad left his Mum out of the blue and he was brought up by his Mum and his step-dad, who has acted as his Dad. His biological father remarried and didn't come to our wedding, citing the seating arrangements on the top table as the issue. He has never spoken to my H since, nor H's sister, nor seen the two little girls she has, or kept in touch with his mother, brother and sister. I thought I'd mention this here, because it will be significant later on.

I had to change a lot about myself and compromise for the sake of the marriage. He needed constant reassurance, even things like if he cooked a meal he would constantly say, "is it okay for you" and if I ever criticised it, even if it was something really tiny like the pasta was a bit overcooked, he would be all like "why, why don't you like it". He could never take any constructive criticism and being with him sometimes felt like walking on eggshells.

He was also extremely arrogant, and I mean EXTREMELY arrogant. He is VERY high up work wise in his industry, and I think this went to his head a lot. He set himself goals like earning the same amount in thousands as he was for his age at the time, which he did and even surpassed very quickly. I couldn't help but admire his tenacity for things like that. I always thought to myself that one day he would create something by accident, and that thing would go on to be huge. This is also significant, so please bear with me.

Then when we had been married 7 years I couldn't take the arrogance any longer. We are both big fans of Formula 1 and this one particular Sunday the race was on very early in the morning as it was the Japanese Grand Prix. He decided that he didn't want to watch it so early, but that he would avoid hearing the result and watch the re-run later in the day. Well my Dad dropped round, as he often did, and said "hey, what about that Ferrari 1-2 win then" - well my Dad didn't know what we were trying to do, it was an accident he said that! My H went into a complete tantrum and said, "That's it, he's ruined it, I can't watch it now", went up the stairs and slammed the door. This is just one example of his arrogant and childish behaviour, and for me was the last straw.

So I said I thought we needed to separate and he went to stay with his parents. But he was very apologetic and wanted to try again, so after a while we did. At this point I was ready to try for a baby. Several years later and 5 miscarriages later, my Doctor finally referred me to be looked at. I was convinced the problem was me, but it turned out it was my H due to a genetic condition, and that the only options open to us was ICSI or sperm donation if I were to have my own biological child, rather than adopt, as I COULD have them. We were devastated, and even now I don't think I've recovered from all the miscarriages I went through and the news we got.

I haven't been perfect in our marriage - I love writing and poetry so I have done a lot in that arena, created a festival in my spare time and it is fair to say that I've been guilty of doing other things and spending time writing/performing my poetry instead of on the marriage, especially since I started the festival and that took up a lot of my spare time. My H got on with his job and career and didn't really question me, so I thought it was okay. Also our personal life suffered because it became all "functional" and timed to trying for a baby so much, and after we found out about my H's genetic condition that was totally off the agenda.

So last year just after we found out, one of our close male gay friends offered to be a donor. Now this is where I know looking back I really went wrong - I wanted a baby that was biologically my own so much (I was 37 then, 38 now - so I don't have all the time in the world) that even though my H was not at all keen on the idea I went ahead with the "turkey baster" method, despite my H saying that he wasn't happy about it. But I had gone into "panic" mode about my age as my Mum was 37 when she started an early menopause, and at the time that was ALL I could think about, that I was going to go down the same road because daughters can follow the Mum if they have an early menopause.

We had asked our friend if there were any inherited conditions in his side of the family, after all, we had to know because if there had been it would have been going from the frying pan into the fire. He assured me there wasn't, but I then found out that that wasn't the case from his sister - their mother had serious mental health issues with paranoia, schizophrenia and all sorts of other things. Thank god that despite having two cycles of trying "turkey baster" method I didn't get pregnant. Suffice to say I fell out with this "friend" over that, and although my H didn't say anything, I knew that he wasn't at all happy with me for not listening to him about that - I really really wish I had

On the work side, going back to what I said earlier, my H created some software that began to sell all over the world and we created a company together (I own half of the business). I gave up my own career to help him because he had a full-time job at the time the product was launched online, and took it from us both working in an office at home to offices with staff, we are now up to 10 members of staff.
One of them is a long standing friend from when I was at school. She had moved back to the area having separated from her husband who gave her the “l love you but I’m not in love with you” speech, I met up with her when she came back, to cut a long story short she was looking for a job and we needed someone with her expertise. Looking back, that was the biggest mistake I ever made, and this will become significant later on too.

In the end my husband had to give up his full-time job to work on the business full-time, because I was working well over capacity myself trying to keep on top of everything. I gave up the festival I started, I gave up my writing, I gave up my career and every waking moment was spent working on the business. Even with my husband having given up his full-time job, we were both over stretched with how the business progressed.

It is again fair to say that we stopped being like husband and wife, going out together, spending time together etc – except for at the office. He slept in the spare room at night, because he has terrible problems with snoring, which he knows about (he is a bit overweight) and he wanted to make sure that he “slept well so he’d be alert for the office” - he would always start off with me at night and we would have a cuddle or whatever, but then he’d let our dog out and go to the spare room. In the morning I would go in with him.
The business became his very life. He had no other topic of conversation, he wanted to stay in the office as late as possible every night working, he went into the office at weekends, he was glued to his phone for his work emails all the time as well. But I accepted it because I thought if we worked really hard now, we could pay off the mortgage and other things and enjoy ourselves later on, and in the absence of there being any children, it was a bit of a trap that we both fell into.

So, towards the end of last year he went on a business trip to the USA with my friend who works for us. And when he came back, looking back on it now, he seemed different. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but he wasn’t at all himself.

While he was away I went back to my doctor and asked for blood tests to find out my ovarian reserves and if I was heading to a menopause – with my Mum having had hers so early I needed to know, even though discussing anything with my H was taboo since the whole incident with our ex friend. It turned out that even though I am 39 I have the fertility levels of someone in their early 30’s, and there was no indication that I was heading to a menopause any time soon! My Grandmother was 47 (yes, 47) when my Dad was born, so I guess I must have taken after his family. This being the case, my GP said based on my results we could probably get two rounds of ICSI on the NHS, and he referred us.

I told my H when he got back from his trip and I thought he would be happy, but he said flatly, “that’s great”. Christmas came and went, and then on January 6th, totally out of the blue, he gave me the “I love you but I’m not in love with you speech” and said that he doesn’t have feelings for me as a wife anymore. I was physically sick, I couldn’t believe it. He absolutely insisted that there was no-one else, but I had my nagging doubts that someone or something must have triggered it off. He did say that he wanted to “see how it goes”, so I agreed. He even suggested going away and booked a week’s holiday in Florida.

But I couldn’t escape the nagging feeling that something was going on – even if not physically then emotionally – between him and my friend who works for us. And it affected my performance in the office – I couldn’t help it  maybe I should have taken a break from the office, but I didn’t want her “worming” her way into what I did even on a work level, but she was at more than full capacity herself so I don’t see how she could have done, but it was still a fear I had.

In mid-January they went down to London for a business meeting, and when they got back – I’m not proud of this – I just lost it in the office in front of her, my husband and the staff  It had just all bottled up and I attacked her and her work performance, I did undermine her, but I’d been through so much emotionally I just couldn’t help it – which was unlike me – I am always usually so calm, controlled and collected  My H immediately jumped to her defence, didn’t support me or even try to understand why I did what I did, apparently had “meetings” with all the staff members the following Monday and said that none of them wanted me there because of what happened and I wasn’t to come back to the office. This reinforced for me that something was going on with the two of them even more. I’ve since learnt from my solicitor that I should have dug my heels in as a joint owner of the company and still gone into the office, but I was so shocked that he sided with her and wouldn’t listen to what I had to say I just did it for a few days, but then went back.

I consulted a solicitor about everything and divorcing, where I was told that no matter what I was to hold on to my half of the company. After that we went to Florida for our holiday where things were a bit better, but not back to normal. He didn’t want to talk about the marriage or the relationship, I couldn’t even bring it up with him. And then one day while we were there his phone beeped while he was in the shower, he asked me to look at it for him and it was from her – the text was actually okay and business like, but I could see the whole thread of texts and there were a few that I considered to be inappropriate from her, she’d texted him at a weekend saying “I’m doing my bathroom, want to come and see my plumbing”, and things like “Thanks for sorting out that customer issue, you are AWESOME as the Americans would say”. To be fair to my H, his responses weren’t flirty or anything like that, but hers were inappropriate given she is meant to be my friend and they were to her boss.

When we got back things in the office were strained, but I think that’s because my friend had time with the staff while we were away to manipulate her way in and undermine me in there. Things were okay in the office before I left just about, but I’m sure she’d done some meddling while we were away – I could feel the atmosphere was so different there.

During this last few weeks getting my H to come home on time to spend time together, or go out and do something as a couple was like getting blood out of a stone – he still worked late and thought of nothing else but the company. A week ago we had our consultation appointment about ICSI and were told our first cycle of that would start mid-March, he was quiet during the appointment but we did have a situation arise in the office with a customer that day so I put it down to that.

Friday night we actually went out for a meal and to a live music gig. Then yesterday morning he got up and said he’d been up “thinking about it” all night, that he just wasn’t getting that “feeling” back and he was going to phone his Mum to come and pick him up. He said he had to say it now because of the ICSI treatment starting and he didn’t want to go down that road until he was certain of his feelings for me, and he needed to get away to decide that. He said during the time he is away he might start the divorce proceedings off but that we could stop them if he decided he wanted to be married to me after all.

I just looked on in total shock as he threw a load of his clothes into a suitcase. He said he would give me the house, the car (we share a car between us as with working in the same place we weren’t using our second car so got rid of it), he would give me a monthly “salary” as I don’t have a job or income as I gave up my career to work on the business and that I could keep our dog. His Mum came to get him, he said he wanted to meet up for lunch on Monday, and that was it – he was gone.
I got my parents to come round and we are all convinced that while nothing may have happened physically, it looks like an emotional affair. My friend is quite overweight and one night at dinner with my parents and my H my Dad made an innocent joke about it, and my parents were horrified the way he jumped to her defence immediately. It is also significant that he is the exact age that his Dad left his Mum when he was little. My Mum said that she always had a gut and niggling feeling that one day he would do the same thing as his Dad and he would turn out just like him. He clearly has. My Dad also said that it looks like he has replaced actual children with another “baby” – his company – as that’s the only thing that seems to mean anything to him now.

So here I am, in bed at home, I can’t stop crying  I do love my husband and I married in the Catholic Church so for better and for worse I want to do all I can to try and resolve this before I let it go. I want to suggest relate, and that we “date” for a bit – but any and all help or advice you can give me after reading this very long post would be really appreciated.

I have given myself a username of EternalHope, even though I am dying inside, because I have to try and believe that things will get better somehow.

Thank you all for reading this,

EternalHope xxx
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Old 26th February 2012, 10:50 AM   #2
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Hi EH. Have to be brief here as on the way to our fellowship.

Thank you for the information. There is such a lot in there to consider.

The problem seems to me that working on the marriage was neglected because of work which could have laid him open to an emotional affair with your friend. Mostly in these cases there is always someone else looming in the background and it may well be your friend although one cannot prove it. Time will tell of course.

The background I am getting is that he suffers from rejection perhaps from his childhood and part of his drive is for significance. While business is very valid he might also be using it to fill this lack of acceptance void hence working all hours of the day. Success in business however, as much as it meets the financial needs, will never meet his need for significance however hard he works.

What was needed was work on the marriage. Instead it seems that he was getting flattery from your friend which he fell for. We don't know what else she was feeding him with, but your instincts could be correct.

I don't know what you can do immediately as he seems to have made a decision. We can hope that he will see it and realise that he is being unfaithful. This was not a sudden decision but had been building up for quite a time. I think she weedled her way into his life and he switched emotionally. Again we cannot prove that.

The significance of the marriage slipped somewhere along the line and was ignored. It is not something we can really neglect as it is our most significant relationship on earth and needs to be watched and kept healthy.

Others may have other points and even help but that is my initial impression.
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Old 26th February 2012, 07:03 PM   #3
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Greetings EH,
It is unlikely that your husband will be able to make the switch between his love for his business vs. his obligations towards you as well as to wanting to start a family. I believe he is too disconnected to care...and he will never view a child as being his own if it is conceived from a donor, so having a child will not save the marriage...it will only complicate the break and muddle things further.

I know you made a committment and love him, but he is not "on board" anymore...you are looking painfully at what "should have been" and what "could have been" if things had not taken so many wrong turns...women are like that, they live in perpetual hope against all odds.

You cannot do his "loving" for him, and his resolve to try is no longer there, he has been going through the motions for quite awhile now. Even if there had not been another woman involved at any level, he seems to have "checked out" of the marriage emotionally because of his sights on business and the value and weight he gives to that instead.

Hanging on to hope will only net you pain, as does letting go...better to let go as he has already done and move forward.

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Old 26th February 2012, 07:16 PM   #4
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Hi both

Thanks for your replies, while I think that too Forever he does want to meet for lunch tomorrow to talk about where to go from here, and this morning after I posted on here he called and said that he thinks he's made a "bit of a mistake" but needs time to "reflect" - that's how he put it.

I guess I won't know any more until I meet him tomorrow lunchtime.

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Old 26th February 2012, 07:30 PM   #5
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It will be interesting to see if that "bit of a mistake" is regarding the marriage itself, or regarding what he offered to give you at the thought of ending of it. I hope it is the former rather than the latter.

I also seriously doubt that he is "involved" with that woman on any level at all (she might be, but she is barking up wrong tree)...he probably sees her as an end to his means...strictly business, and does not want anything to jeopardise that part of the relationship.

Let us know how lunch goes tomorrow.
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Old 26th February 2012, 07:32 PM   #6
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Well he said that he thought he had made a "bit of a mistake" with regard to us and that he needs time to "reflect" to see how he feels, so I believe it is the former and not the latter.

All I can do is see how lunch tomorrow goes, but right now i can't stop crying and I'm all alone in our house with our dog, and it is so hard

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Old 26th February 2012, 07:38 PM   #7
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I hope he does not view your marriage/business partnership as a means to his ends. Do not be shocked if he is rethinking everything on terms of possible business reprocussions and the impact that a disolution would have rather than on how he feels about you and a future as husband/wife.

Crying is good...but makes for puffy eyes the next day.
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Old 26th February 2012, 07:52 PM   #8
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I am a hoper as well EH. I am hoping and praying that his mistake relates to not putting enough into the marriage and checking out too easily. I hope Forever is right and that he has no interest in your friend on that level. Will be praying for your meeting tomorrow.
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Old 27th February 2012, 10:38 PM   #9
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Well I have a way forward. He wants to separate, rent a room in town near to the office so he can be at the office 24/7 to concentrate on his business and not have anything else, including me, get in the way. He won't consider Relate or any of my suggestions - it looked like he'd made his mind up, but then he said he still wants to meet up on a regular basis, go out and see if we can get the "spark" back - so I am really confused and don't know what to think

I've arranged to meet up with him on Wednesday night, but I don't know if I will change my mind before then. There are two issues here now - even if I did give it another go would it be in the back of my mind that he'd do it again - probably, and I'd be constantly treading on eggshells. Also do I really want to go back to a guy who can't give me children when I'm halfway to 38 and don't have lots of time on the clock left in that department? I can honestly say on that one having thought about it - no.

I would honestly rather get everything sorted out over the next couple of months and then go down the donor route to have a child rather than go through all the rigmaroll of dating, looking, finding "duds" and even if the right guy came along if I'm lucky, I wouldn't go down the road of having a child with them unless I was very certain.

There is nothing wrong with being a single mum these days, I have an amazing support network of family and friends and my parents would give ANYTHING to be grandparents (I'm an only child). And I so want a family of my own - been trying for nearly 10 years and the miscarriages I had were absolutely heartbreaking. I was convinced it was me, and was floored when it turned out I was okay and my husband was the one who had something wrong with him that was causing them.

And if in the future I did meet a guy and I had a child, if he can accept us both, then he's a guy worth looking at

So a bit of a bumpy road ahead I think, and yes I will have wobbles and lots of tears, but I think that in the end I'll be okay

Thanks for all the replies on here xxx
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Hmmm....I have some thoughts on this if you care to "hear" them?

Since you are determined to go down the donor route anyway without a husband, why not hold off on a divorce and just see if there is anything you can do to keep the husband you already have meanwhile? Just date him when you both have spare time. He will likely not get in the way of what you want since this has been a long painful road for you...as long as he does not have to devote any of "his" time to that endeavor. He would not want to give up on the business he cherishes sooo much, so he is unlikely to expect you to give up on having a child or two of your own while he does his "thing" either...I am sure that in the mind frame he is in that he would understand as long as you do not involve him and get in his way while you persue it.

If you both end up splitting permanently, you are not "out" anything since you are now already contemplating not getting back together...but if he ends up having a change of heart and learns to enjoy you and the baby, then your marriage might just get back on track. You would be going it alone anyway, and the idea of finding that special fellow who would accept you and a child are no better or worse in odds than seeing if the man you are already married to might accept you wholeheartedly later down the road.

Just my two cents (logic).

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Old 28th February 2012, 02:24 PM   #11
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Hmmm....I have some thoughts on this if you care to "hear" them?

Since you are determined to go down the donor route anyway without a husband, why not hold off on a divorce and just see if there is anything you can do to keep the husband you already have meanwhile? Just date him when you both have spare time. He will likely not get in the way of what you want since this has been a long painful road for you...as long as he does not have to devote any of "his" time to that endeavor. He would not want to give up on the business he cherishes sooo much, so he is unlikely to expect you to give up on having a child or two of your own while he does his "thing" either...I am sure that in the mind frame he is in that he would understand as long as you do not involve him and get in his way while you persue it.

If you both end up splitting permanently, you are not "out" anything since you are now already contemplating not getting back together...but if he ends up having a change of heart and learns to enjoy you and the baby, then your marriage might just get back on track. You would be going it alone anyway, and the idea of finding that special fellow who would accept you and a child are no better or worse in odds than seeing if the man you are already married to might accept you wholeheartedly later down the road.

Just my two cents (logic).
That makes perfect sense Forever, and something I hadn't thought of but am thinking about now will see if there is a way to broach this with him without scaring him away even more, but I've got plenty of time to think about it because I'm not meeting him till tomorrow evening.

Thank you for this

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Old 28th February 2012, 03:33 PM   #12
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I know this isnt politically correct these days, but children do need a loving father as well as a mother.
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Old 28th February 2012, 03:49 PM   #13
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I agree Chosen, that is in an "ideal" world...but tell that to all the women in the real world whose husbands have died or abandoned them or are dangerous or cheating idiots. EH has her father and mother who are more than eager to "fill in" and an extended family at least. Ideally, women do not usually suffer five miscarriages before finding out the problem is her husband...which can never be remedied as long as she is with him any other way. It is not like she is cheating on him. Would you also suggest that she should not adopt a child either if she were not married?

Her husband might come around some day if he gets his act together...but if not, at least she will have someone to love and cherish apart from him after ten years of heartache and faithfullness...would God frown on that? We do not live in a perfect world, and this is one of those gray areas where the Bible does not speak for it or against it as far as I know, other than stating what the "ideal" is.

I would say that her parents would make a far better "father" for her child than her husband would at this point, and a child would be better off with them loving it than he would given his frame of mind and heart.

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EH,
I would venture to guess that the only issue your husband could have that he would object to is the financial support of a child that he did not personally father at a time when he is thinking of divorce. How would you ease his mind about that one given the business situation...will he then be required by law to pay child support...or will you agree to supporting the children with your own share of the business? Can this even be done legally?

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Old 28th February 2012, 05:45 PM   #15
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I don't get the point of why you want to save this marriage? You and your husband have been on opposite earths for many years, sharing very little. He sleeps in another room, and your view of him that he is arrogant, overweight and snores so you can't share a bed. The insemination with the turkey baster of a friends' sperm for the purpose to conceive, literally boggles my mind! Your husband was not involved, and for sure, was opposed to that plan. You went full speed ahead anyway.

The friend who works in the office doesn't seem to be an affair. I think his emphasis is the stability of company he founded. He is a hopeful Bill Gates. I agree her posts, which your read were flirtatious and somewhat inapproprite, but your rival is not a woman, but the company. He realizes that all your futures rests on the success and forward momentum there. You created a jealous scene in the office, which others witnessed, and he asked you to leave the office. Since you don't work, except the fact he put you on salary to get you out of the firm activities. That was a foolish action on your part. That scene must have embrrassed him very much. It seems less that you were afraid to lose him, than the value he represents to your financial well being. It wouldn't surprise me if he offered to buy you out in the process of a divorce.

You should find a work place somewhere else to occupy your time and efforts. It seems the baby idea will not complete you as a person. It may just complicate life. If you have the great desire to be a mother, he wants no part of an insemination, nor future finacial responsibility for a child that isn't even his idea. You would do better to consider to foster a child if that is a great thought for you. I see no way for you to remain married, because you are virtual strangers.

Having children is often not the big dream one might think. Preganancy doesn't always conceive a healthy, well child. Since you had many miscarriages there is no guarantee of health and a normal child. If you had a child those children grow often into alienated and uncaring adults who go their own way into lifestyles we would never believe or choose for them. I think you should develop your own life, not dependent on needs you believe will be met by having children alone. Children should have a stable home and environement. There are very affluent women who choose to raise a child alone, but most women want two parents to share the burden involved. You have income from him and instead of finding a niche for yourself, you continue on a course that could go broke, if the company has problems.

There was the time you wanted a divorce and he willingly moved out. You got back "together..co-existing" while sharing little. Now he realizes all this time is lost. You hold on and pursue a goal with a baby clinic, which he wants no part of or future responsibility. He has detached and there is no way he is going to cooperate with any counselling. You are on a complete separate track. It would seem unlikely you will find happiness in future because neither of you is really committed to salvage the marriage.

You are dependent on your husband and his company. Should that business go broke you would have no cushion. I'd develop a sound financial base for your life ahead by finding work and making a new life. I don't mean to be harsh, but I think it is over.

Last edited by 1aokgal; 29th February 2012 at 05:50 PM.
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