Thanks everyone, you all had somd really great advoce. I really like the idea of getting coffee amd resetting boundaries. I think it is also important for me to admit my faults in not being more clear about what I was comfortable with and saying "we'll see" instead of "no" when the idea of living together came up.
I do feel empathetic toward his situation and did not want to just write him off as crazy but rather a lonely man who wants to be loved. Maybe I should help him set up a ptofile on a dating site instead...seems like this business is not for him!
Originally Posted by Slim.
You wrote later that he cannot respect ladies who are providers or who have been providers. I find that attitude confining, to say the least, on his part. Anyone should be judges purely on his/her own merits as an individuals because humans are so surprising, like snowflakes and cats! Full of character and contrariness.
If he had been a more open person, given that his marriage was definitely ending, not about to end, I should have asked you this: was there a chance that you could have found him someone that would have suited him? Perhaps a friend of yours in the business or out of it, someone whose needs and personality jibed with his needs and personality? I am speaking about marriage, not a being a mistress or sugarbaby. That demonstrates commitment.
I am incredibly stupid. You are welcome to add infinitely spicier adjectives. But I always hope that there are wonderful people on this earth, who are kind and loving and who will meet kind and loving people and live happily ever after. I have seen a great deal in my life that is the precise opposite, so I must keep this hope alive.
The cynic and the "tough" find it hard going when they meet up with the really hard ones, which is is not infrequently. So, why not allow the gentler side in you a chance, even at some potential cost? Not necessarily this man, who did not prove to be really sincere, but perhaps someone in the future. People can fall in love and can commit with their whole beings, can they not? They might not be the ones you fancied, be riddled with faults, but still?