Columns: Tag – Divorced
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Characters on the Couch
Kids or no kids
Dear Gabriel
I’m in my 40s and divorced. I have two pre-teens. Recently I met a woman in her early 30s. She’s never been married. We’ve got pretty serious, I suppose. We both like the same things.
We met in a cycle club and we cycle marathons together. My ex-wife never liked things like that. We were planning to move in together in a month or two. Now, the thing is, right out of the blue the other night, she said that when we had our kids ... something or other. I didn’t even hear the rest. I mean what a shocker.
Characters on the Couch
Sex just for sex sake?
Dear Gabriel
I haven’t had sex in eight years. I was a single mother, and for a while, didn’t feel the need. Then I suppose I got out the habit. Or maybe I come over too desperate.
I can live by myself (with my child) and I can keep myself occupied. But I just want to have sex. I bought the bloody vibrator at the suburban sex toy party. But I’m just no good with it. It seems cold.
I’ve recently got so desperate I have dreams and desperate longings. I can’t concentrate. I’m tempted to put an ad in the paper, or meet someone on the internet. Anyone, just so long as I get to feel a real man’s skin.
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