Hey, Hey Waffle gang. I do hope you are well. My name is Mark and today we're checking out some more

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throwaway Kevin Canne who says,

My wife is upset by my finally flourishing, and in brackets envy.

My 28 male wife, Ashley, 30 female, have been together for four years, married three,

and open for two. We both found someone very early.

Ashley was dating a married man in a stable, poly relationship and I got quite close to a grad

student at a nearby college. Ashley and I were both high on new relationship energy,

but managed to share that with each other and it was so intense

and special. After nine great months, my grad student got a job off of several hours away.

Being slightly introverted, I kind of withdrew into my shell and threw myself into the gym to take my mind off things.

Less than two months after that, Ashley's Mehta got pregnant and her relationship started

to wind down. I'd hoped we'd take some time and maybe travel or just spend some romantic

time together after both of our breakups, but Ashley's plan was to chase that next new relationship

energy rush with someone new. But she wasn't matching with anyone that she could

really connect with. She started seeing more people more often. Then she scheduled a date with a new

guy on Saturday night, which had always been our date night. We argued and she ended up not going

with either of us that night. She insisted we change our date night to Thursday because Friday and

Saturday were better for her other partners, especially if they wanted to do an overnight.

All this caused me to spiral a bit and I was practically living at the gym, with no real enthusiasm

for dating for a few months. The upside was I lost 35 pounds and really pumped my

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