So I have some pretty major updates since I last posted. And this is probably a pretty good case study that proves so much of what @Michael Sartain says is 100% right. To save you time looking back, when I joined here in October 2025 I was seperated but still living with my soon to be ex-wife. The breakup started when she said she 'loves me, but isn't in love with me, the relationship is over and we are done' in October 2024. This was after 10 years together plus 18 months married, so yeah, after 10 years to get to know each other well enough to decide if we wanted to be married, we got married and 18 months later she changed her mind... So that was shit. We have 3 kids between us ( all from our first marriages, 2 mine, 1 hers) and had a stable family environment for them for over a decade. My reasons for joining were partly to start learning new skills should I find myself back in the dating pool, but mostly to use those same skills to re-attract my wife. Long story short, I moved out 8 weeks ago and have been dating with some good success already (including pulling a 26 year old Swedish airline hostess - at 52 she is literally half my age). I moved out after some absolutely crazy behaviour from my wife in 2026 including physical abuse from her on me. After moving out I was 100% certain I would never go back, hence starting dating again. Then to add to the fun, this weekend I found out that from 6 months into us being married - a year before my wife decided to mention that there was a problem and that she wasn't in love with me anymore - she had been having an affair.. bare minimum emotional, but lots of reasons to think physical too which will now have been going on for 3 years. She 'forgot' to mention this at any point while blaming me for everything during the seperation. I now have a ton of evidence provided by the other guys wife, and its clear that while she was enjoying the 'comfort' of home life with me and was torn over what she was doing, 'attraction' was built elsewhere with him.