You're lucky. I've come across some couples who were actually better
friends after they were divorced than while they were married. I am
thinking of a gorgeous woman I went out with after my divorce. She scared me
a little when she kept talking about what a great guy her ex was. My
thought was, if he's such a nice guy, why the hell did you divorce him? The
best answer I got was that he was too nice, not romantic enough. She was
interested in flying, so we had some fun times together...

My current girlfriend grew up half a world away, in a different culture, and
lived for years in a real, shooting war zone. So, I figure we have a lot in
common....

I trust that when my airplane does me in, she'll be kind enough to be quick
about it.

The really amazing thing is that my ex is not the most troubled woman I have
been in a relationship with. My high school/college girlfriend went on to
marry her next door neighbor, raise three children, and slaughter them all
before committing suicide.


Four fraudulent domestic violence petitions, three manufactured felony
sex
charges, two feigned misdemeanor sex charges (yeah, I know it sounds like
I
should add "and a partridge in a pear tree...") and one hundred thousand
dollars later -- and counting -- I have the house, my two sons, the
airplane, and I get a token child support payment once per month.

Reading your story made me damned glad I married the woman I did. True,
our marriage fell apart... but nobody tried to destroy the other. Since
there were no kids involved, we basically took out what we'd brought in
and split the stuff acquired during the marriage between us. No lawyers
were involved up until the time I actually filed for divorce and at that
point it was just for the purpose of filing papers.