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Wedgie wrote:I shaggged non stop anything that moved after breaking up from a 22 year relationship. Best time of my life, not sure about the advice to take up knitting and become a nun.
Each to their own.

JK wrote:

Wedgie wrote:I shaggged non stop anything that moved after breaking up from a 22 year relationship. Best time of my life, not sure about the advice to take up knitting and become a nun.
Each to their own.

For some people that's exactly what they need, in others it's only a temporary high and the void returns bigger and darker. Sounds like yourself, TDK, Valleys and LM (all probably through a little trial and error) figured put what worked best for y'all, which is exactly how it needs to be imho.

Wedgie wrote:Exactly. Each to their own, i had such a blast and got to meet so many different women from different ages. Was great for the confidence!
I know 6 trips to Thailand helped me heaps too!
Settled down now, it was good to get that out of my system though, it was more fun than my teenage years, older chicks are so much up for things!
Worst thing I could have done in those years was give up on women and take up a hobby, couldn't think of anuthing worse in what should be the best years of your life, a lot of blokes dont get the chance!

Wedgie wrote:I was an awesome role model for my son! He thought if Dad can get that much tail then it should be a breeze for him, gave him so much confidence with girls!

Dutchy wrote:If we were all the same life would be ******* boring!

valleys07 wrote:

The Dark Knight wrote:Recently breaking up with my girlfriend of four and a half years.

Out of respect for her I don't want to go into great detail- We went from having a wonderful first three years together, being deeply in love and looking at spending the rest of our lives with each other to recently having polar opposite lives and not being on the same page together at all like we once were which made it too hard to stay together. Devastated that it happened would be an understatement.

So it's been a stressful and very lonely last month or so for me leading into and then breaking up but I've tried to not let it get to me too much and had the good support of my mates, workmates and sister and mum around me.

Now after a night out with my cricket mates who picked me back up and some new female attention I have a reason to smile again. Things have started to turn around quicker than I thought.

Sorry to hear, Davo. Living that exact situation just a couple of months ahead of yourself, I know too well what you are going through. Fantastic to read that you have a great support network of family, mates and work colleagues.

It has been mentioned already, but working on yourself is terrific advice. Things like a creating a bucket list for things such as travel, fitness regime, career goals, hobbies and interests are great ways to work out what makes you happy. Since parting ways with my wife, I have invested in myself by way of therapy and have begun a fitness regime, which has been both therapeutic for me as well as restoring my confidence. I have a newly found focus on my career and what direction I want that to take, and have some travel plans in mind with my son for when that becomes a realistic financial possibility. All things to keep my mind focused.

If you ever need a chat mate, PM me. Talking through your situation with anybody happy to lend an ear is brilliant for mental and emotional reinvigoration. I’d be only too happy to lend an ear, share my experience and be there for you to vent yours.

Best of luck mate.

Q. wrote:It's a great opportunity for self reflection and self improvement, perhaps taking the time to undo some conditioning at the hands of archaic notions of masculinity. Get your hands on some of Robert Augustus Masters works.

The epitome and key agent of aggression against ourselves is our inner critic. Our inner critic is a composite of the main critical/shaming voices we heard as a child. It provides a heartlessly negative appraisal of us, reinforcing our sense of ourselves as defective; we can never measure up. What was done to us by those who most successfully shamed us is what we are now doing to ourselves through our inner critic when we let it assume an authoritative position in our psyche.

Q. wrote:It's a great opportunity for self reflection and self improvement, perhaps taking the time to undo some conditioning at the hands of archaic notions of masculinity. Get your hands on some of Robert Augustus Masters works.

Booney wrote:My rellies from up in Gladstone being airlifted to the RAH after their house burnt to the ground. Uncle with burns to hands and face and he and the Aunty with smoke inhalation. House completely destroyed.

He's lived there his whole life, it was his Mum and Dad's house so nearly 80 years of memories gone.

Heart breaking.

Booney wrote:My rellies from up in Gladstone being airlifted to the RAH after their house burnt to the ground. Uncle with burns to hands and face and he and the Aunty with smoke inhalation. House completely destroyed.

He's lived there his whole life, it was his Mum and Dad's house so nearly 80 years of memories gone.

Heart breaking.

Booney wrote:My rellies from up in Gladstone being airlifted to the RAH after their house burnt to the ground. Uncle with burns to hands and face and he and the Aunty with smoke inhalation. House completely destroyed.

He's lived there his whole life, it was his Mum and Dad's house so nearly 80 years of memories gone.

Heart breaking.