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My ex cheated and filed for divorce and still expects me not to date.

How was that at work?

One month since I found the evidence.

I caught them on April 1st.

14-year marriage had been suffering from neglect.

It worsened after the accusation.

The gaslit me completely.

I wasn't letting her have any friends outside of our marriage, yada yada, jokes on me. They were spicy texting and had a fantasy relationship that was hidden online. By the way, this comes from user society different 656, and if you want to submit your own stories, go to the R-slash-O-K story time subreddit. I'm Dakota. I'm Keon. And we're here to give good advice goofily, but we don't have all the answers. We only know what we know. So let us know what you know in the comments. A week back, I made an online dating profile. Had a couple of coffee dates. Nothing serious, not intended to be. I want to find myself. I want some companionship, though, even if it is superficial, that isn't one of my friends who won't

touch me with a 10-foot pole or ask, how are you holding up every time I see them? My soon-to-be-X

and I were having dinner last night, still have to live together for another two and a half

weeks, and divorce is filed, but there's a cooling period until mid-October. We have a kid who

happened to be a sleepover. She made a statement regarding Christmas. I still want Christmas to be a time we can come together. You have her this year, Christmas Eve, and I get Christmas Day, but I'd still like to be able to get together even if you were dating someone else and brought them with on Christmas Day. So my question to her, knowing I have said profile,

would you be okay with me dating anyone else by then? She got upset, cried, and ran off. She came

back and said she was just shocked to hear it. I told her that I hope when she's ready,

she can find whatever happiness she can in life on the other side of this, and I hope she would

feel the same for me. Cake eating, right? I'm just supposed to be a lonely, joyless person waiting to get better, or for her to be comfortable with the fact that she left me, and I want to be appreciated more than I have been since, I don't know, God knows when. I am 42, I'm not a priest, I'm not in a hurry to replace her, but is there a too soon to just get out and

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