I might forget things that I said, but I never lie.
Maybe if you had been married for 37 years and just lost your wife, the only person you have left in this world, you would not be at your best. It is all I can do to just keep from taking my own life.
But I have already apologized to you for my mistake. I hoped that would be enough.
Then I accept your apology, as I missed your post.
You have my sympathies, and my wife for the record left one day while I was in work, I got a note, followed by a solicitors letter, and after living off me for 20 years, she took every penny I had the same day I lost my job. I'd been saving to retire through I'll health, working silly hours while she worked part time. We had no children, a sacrifice I made so that she could repair her relationship with her children from the first marriage. I owned the house before we met, and paid off the mortgage before we married, and she took half its value, to run off with someone else. The grandchildren have been brought to visit me once in the last 3 years. She's made zero effort to help them see me, and even threatened to stop me seeing them in the note.
I'm now working 70 hours a week 250 miles from my home to try and have enough to live on. On prescription pain killers.
I've reached the stage where life starts to take, instead of give, but I remain as positive as I can, because being depressed won't help anything.
You never know what others are going through, and pain though a subjective concept, is likely something most people have to deal with, if they're lucky it's an infrequent occurrence, I've not been so lucky, but hey ho...