TC was kind enough to include my letter to him on this subject in this week’s issue. If you haven’t read it, it’s the last one and gives an overview of what I’m trying to do at my humble little website (no ads, no come-ons, no spam).
I figured I’d put this up at the forum in case any of you wanted to say something on the subject here. If you have anything you’d like me to consider for the “comments” section at my site, I’d prefer you send them in an e-mail to me from the site, but I’ll consider those here if you say I should. Otherwise, I won’t. I have a thing about respecting people’s privacy. My goal is to get some decent input and maybe some new ideas. Doesn’t matter if you’re male, female, single, married, divorced, young, middle-aged, or old. We all have a stake in this thing called “divorce” because we’re all affected by it directly or indirectly. If you’re young and never been affected by anyone’s divorce, believe me, you have more experience with this subject coming in the years ahead than you’d like. Hopefully, not your own, but some of your friends will probably go through this and you’ll feel their very real pain. It can’t help but hurt to see it, even from a distance.
I'll try to drop in from time to time to answer any questions here at the forum. Thanks again to TC, and to all you T-men and T-vixens whose letters and forum messages add a lot to every issue. You're all my mentors.
Bob,
I read T-Mag cover to cover as soon as my email chimes in that it has arrived. I read the letter you wrote to TC and man you got my respect. I also visited your site at www.middleage.org/divorce and was very impressed. I think you are really on to something. At 35, I have seen too many marriages go bad, and usually it’s the kids that suffer most. In most cases, it is the division of assets that really gets the “hatred” fired up. Great work all the way around. Once again proving that not all guys with Muscle are morons.
Gymrat, thanks! By the way the full address is www.middleage.org/divorce.htm (gotta have that “.htm”) and thanks for the good words. I just felt that this was an issue where we needed input from a wider range of people. I’m getting growing traffic to this and some good
comments, along with a lot of short ones of the “I agree” or “You suck” variety that I don’t take space to post. I don’t care what their opinion is as long as they have something worth reading.
I’m getting quite a bit of feedback from people who have divorced, but what I’m talking about there is going to have the most impact on younger men and women who haven’t even married yet. They’re the last ones to come across a page like this and I’m hoping T-mag will bring a few in. This is something that will impact them far more than the rest of us. So, before I promote this page, I thought I’d give T-men and women a chance to get their opinions in up-front. The site is pretty simple to speed download. That’s helped me gain visitors from outside the US. Now I want to “gain” some visitors who aren’t married or divorced yet! We’ll see.
JS - He’s referring to a weekly e-mail alert that T-mag sends out, letting us know a new issue is up on the Web. Your question surprised me as I just assumed a “subscription” blank for this was still available at the site. If it is, I don’t see it now. Maybe their e-mail list has gotten so long that adding more addresses is a burden on their system. I don’t know. Maybe one of the staff will notice our messages and let us all know.
I know we’re off-subject here (and it’s my subject! - smile), but this is a good example of why I think so highly of T-mag. Their staff cares enough to catch something like this and respond. Thanks, Tom!
I went to the site but had no time to “look around” so I bookmarked it so I would not forget, I will check it out soon. just wat to say that I think devorce is so comon because people accept failure now adays and very few people are honest or keep their word. just a thought. peace
Hi Hetyey, thanks for bookmarking the site. Hope you get a chance to go through it. The divorce proposal is just one section of a larger site, but it’s the focus of interest right now. I agree, I think there’s a lot of dishonesty these days, but I also think some of it is people being dishonest with themselves. I see it at the gym all the time. No surprise it comes up in relationships too. In any case, I look forward to your comments.