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A breath
By: Mark Morgan on 12/30/2005; 4:11 PM

Don't ever let me go. Don't ever leave me. Don't ever unwrap yourself from my heart. Don't ever make me spend another moment without knowing that that moment I am in your thoughts. Don't ever send me back out there into the dark alone.

For my wife, who deserves better.

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RE: A breath
By: Richard Davidson on 1/4/2006; 1:33 AM

HEY!!!!

I've got a suggestion.

Don't think me an ass, but here goes:

If she DESERVES better, then BE better!

You can do it, Mark.



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Exhale
By: Aradia on 2/18/2006; 8:33 PM

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RE: A breath
By: Mark Morgan on 2/18/2006; 6:14 PM

I've spent three days trying to figure out how to write about this. When I called my mom last night, she told me to stop apologizing and get on with cleaning up the mess I've made of things. She's right, as she usually is.

Over the last six weeks I made decisions that hurt a lot of people. MJ and I are getting a divorce because I fell in love with another woman--Rae--and I had an affair with her. We're getting a divorce because I lied to her the whole time. I was a coward and a fool. I didn't even tell MJ to her face--the other woman's ex-husband decided MJ needed to know, so he sent off the AIM chat logs I'd had with him.

It was a fucked-up situation for sure; he is in the UK and she is in Pittsburgh and while they were still married he told her that she could do whatever she wanted there since she was there alone and he would be okay with it. When she and I decided to do what we have done, he wasn't thrilled but he said he told her she could be "polyamorous" and if it made her happy he'd stay out of the way.

Then they divorced, and it was ugly and vicious and cruel. He'd been seeing another woman and this other woman is pregnant with his child. There was a custody battle. It was horrible. It was venal.

And so February 15, the day after my third wedding anniversary, the ex-husband decided MJ needed to know everything. And now she does. And it's over.

My friends here in town have been supportive, although they all agree I should have handled it a lot differently. That I should have told MJ what was going on with my feelings for Rae before I ever went to Pittsburgh. My friends online, including my old and dear friend Sean, have been universal in telling me I'm a selfish ass. I don't believe Sean is speaking to me any more. I can't say I blame him. My mom wanted to know if I'll be happy with Rae and if I am, she'll be happy for me. But she wants me to clean up my mess.

And me? I'm moving to Philadelphia soon to be with the woman I love. And I've broken the heart of someone who was nothing but kind to me and who didn't deserve it.

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RE: A breath
By: Brian Webber on 2/18/2006; 3:35 PM

OK, it's time for an informal poll. Is EVERY married man I know and consider(ed) a friend having an affair right now, because it sure looks like it. :-( Sorry if that sounded awfully harsh Mark, but considering what's going on in my personal life right now, I don't think you can blame me.

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RE: A breath
By: Mark Morgan on 2/18/2006; 4:15 PM

Hmmm....my outgoing mail doesn't seem to be working.

It's not harsh, Brian. And I only know about the one, but it's enough.

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RE: A breath
By: Brian Webber on 2/19/2006; 4:58 AM

No, you're sadly not the only one. Just ask Judy Dixon. :-(

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RE: A breath
By: rodney raymond mattey on 2/27/2006; 10:07 PM

as a fairly recent blondie song went,"good boys never win", but do the ladies visiting the web site agree with this?

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RE: A breath
By: ScottN on 3/3/2006; 2:06 AM

No, I'm not having an affair.

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