Mine also said "The kids will be fine... (they are 18, 20, 22) they are grown."
Here are others:
I do not appreciate you the way that you deserve to be appreciated... You deserve someone who will appreciate you.
You are handeling this very maturely.
It is not you... (This changes weekly to something I have done in the past).
It is not the amount of love you give, you give more love than a person deserves.
There is nothing wrong with me... (changed to... I am so messed up and confused inside).
I can see you getting remarried in the future, but I do not think that I will ever remarry. (might be.. I want you to move on, but I am seeing if you want to move on)
You understand what is wrong with me more than I do (but he had said there is nothing wrong with him... hmmm?).
I need to "click" off our relationship in order to work on myself. We will always see each other in the future and it may "click" back on.
I realize I could be making the biggest mistake of my life and that I may have to come back on my hands and knees and beg for forgiveness (same person who wants me to get on with my life?).
It is never too late... Her new husband could die and they could get back together. (Said after hearing about how my friend's brother got divorced and his wife remarried and wants nothing to do with him).
I have to get you out of my head.
I do not like how optomistic you are because I am a cynic.
I do not like public displays of affection.
I love you (changed to... I do not understand the difference between like and love).
We have had the best 23 years of our lives and I need to end it before one of us hurts each other. I want to look back on how great those years were.
I wonder if I am like a wounded animal running away from the pack to die?
(To 2 of the kids) I feel crowded and angry and need to leave to fix myself... (With other son 1 week later turned to.. Your mother and I are having problems).
I do not trust people, I do not trust anyone, I do not even trust myself.
That is society's view of marriage.
I do not know if I believe in marriage.
I have never made any decisions for myself without the influence of others.
(About our relationship)... It is like that shed, it needs to be torn down and fixed from the ground up.
Sigh!
M: Feb. 1988
BD: June 12, 2011 (Day after youngest son's HS graduation)
3 young men: in their 20s and on their own
R Status: Left home Sept. 11, 2011 returned Feb. 2013