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Last Thursday, my 39-year-old girlfriend asked that I call once I had left the gym. We had been together for nearly three months and I felt that everything was going decently. We were even planning on going out of town this weekend as she didn't have to work or have custody of her two daughters, ages 12 and 17.
Over the phone she began to tell me that our relationship was not going to where she wanted it to be. We were meeting up twice or more during the week. Along with hanging out every weekend. Yet, she wanted us to meet up every night she didn't have to work. The concept of having personal time for the gym or hobbies was not something she understood. I encouraged her on multiple occasions to look into activities that interested her only to receive the remark that her interests were her two daughters and spending time with me.
When we first started dating, she told me how she had married her high school boyfriend. This was until 2022 when she separated from him due to developing alcoholic issues that resulted in the police being called numerous times and worse. He cleaned himself up for the two daughters and split custody every other week.
The dick kicker was how she dropped the line about how she has remained semi-friends with other guys that she had met since separating from her ex-husband and meeting me. How she wanted me to remain in her life for the two daughters and her mental health.
I told her that I cannot do that. We've slept together. I cannot turn off feelings of love and turn on feelings of only friendship. I'm 38 and tried that in my early 20s with an ex-girlfriend. Looking at her and remembering the times we kissed or more would be a knife stab every time. Since that was what happened back then. I feel awful for what this could do to the two daughters. I had been teaching the 17-year-old how to drive since September. The 12-year-old was finally opening up to me as well.
