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<blockquote data-quote="JackBeNimble" data-source="post: 656202" data-attributes="member: 18998"><p>Why do I always have people telling me to go see a therapist. I'm not the one with mental problems although living with people with mental issues has been and still is very difficult. I seek only understanding and information from others who have had similar problems. I discussed the differences between people's personalities with a very high ranking Army doctor on a flight from Cleveland to St. Louis in the mid 1990's. I described my wife's personality and I told him my children were all like her. He asked me a lot of questions and then described the types of conflicts that arise with the two completely different personalities. He was spot on with his comments and he didn't offer much hope of the marriage surviving. He explained he was a Psychiatrist and was involved in training army personnel. He said the main reason for divorce was two people with conflicting personalities. He asked how long we had we been married and when I told him over twenty-five years he laughed so hard he had tears streaming down his face. He asked me how did I survive so long? I told him I had a lot of acres of woods and every time I got frustrated I'd go cut down a tree. I heated my house with a wood furnace for 18 years. When things got bad between us she say it was time for me to cut some more firewood. He couldn't hold back his laughter and it was quite a few minutes before he was under control again. He excused himself and headed for the restroom laughing loudly all the way there. When he returned a few minutes later he apologized and explained he had never met someone that had been married so long to a person so totally opposite from his spouse. I told him my grandfather did the same thing and was married for fifty years before he died. I always wondered why my grandfather was always talking to himself and now I fully understand the reason why. The doctor lost it again and off to the bathroom he went to collect himself. When he came back he apologized again and asked me where I met my wife. When he learned I met her in Europe and that she was British he put his hands over his face and said "You poor man." He said "You both deserve a medal." We had this conversation for almost four hours and afterwards I better understood what I was up against with my family. The mental problems at that time I didn't recognize as such and only more recently did I realize there was more going on than just personality differences between us. I unfortunately see no happy endings to my predicament. I don't like walking away from my now adult children but that is exactly what I must do. I will see a lawyer next week to make sure they have no say whatsoever in my affairs in the future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JackBeNimble, post: 656202, member: 18998"] Why do I always have people telling me to go see a therapist. I'm not the one with mental problems although living with people with mental issues has been and still is very difficult. I seek only understanding and information from others who have had similar problems. I discussed the differences between people's personalities with a very high ranking Army doctor on a flight from Cleveland to St. Louis in the mid 1990's. I described my wife's personality and I told him my children were all like her. He asked me a lot of questions and then described the types of conflicts that arise with the two completely different personalities. He was spot on with his comments and he didn't offer much hope of the marriage surviving. He explained he was a Psychiatrist and was involved in training army personnel. He said the main reason for divorce was two people with conflicting personalities. He asked how long we had we been married and when I told him over twenty-five years he laughed so hard he had tears streaming down his face. He asked me how did I survive so long? I told him I had a lot of acres of woods and every time I got frustrated I'd go cut down a tree. I heated my house with a wood furnace for 18 years. When things got bad between us she say it was time for me to cut some more firewood. He couldn't hold back his laughter and it was quite a few minutes before he was under control again. He excused himself and headed for the restroom laughing loudly all the way there. When he returned a few minutes later he apologized and explained he had never met someone that had been married so long to a person so totally opposite from his spouse. I told him my grandfather did the same thing and was married for fifty years before he died. I always wondered why my grandfather was always talking to himself and now I fully understand the reason why. The doctor lost it again and off to the bathroom he went to collect himself. When he came back he apologized again and asked me where I met my wife. When he learned I met her in Europe and that she was British he put his hands over his face and said "You poor man." He said "You both deserve a medal." We had this conversation for almost four hours and afterwards I better understood what I was up against with my family. The mental problems at that time I didn't recognize as such and only more recently did I realize there was more going on than just personality differences between us. I unfortunately see no happy endings to my predicament. I don't like walking away from my now adult children but that is exactly what I must do. I will see a lawyer next week to make sure they have no say whatsoever in my affairs in the future. [/QUOTE]
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