True test of a Liberal... share a house with your ex of 12 years and.....

Ok, here's the deal. X and I were divorced 12 years ago, cause basically we got married when we were too young. 3 beautiful boys that mean the world to both of us. So when he called me 3 months ago and said he was getting divorced from the current wife, and would I be willing to move in with him and pay the mortgage, I said yes, and I have been living here two months now. We get along just fine. (FYI the soon to be ex is still living in the back bedroom). We just had a very interesting conversation about the people we have dated in the past 10 years, how he wanted to kill a few of my past boyfriends cause they were no good for me, and how I wanted to slap around one of his girlfriends cause they talked down to my boys...


My question is... is this abnormal, or the sign of a true liberal?

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for a Hollywood movie.

cause we could really use it about now!

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write a pilot episode and pitch it to NBC.

You can't just sell a situation. Unless, of course, you sell it to one of these networks who do reality TV. They might find it interesting, but I doubt it because it's not a situation which they created. They seem to enjoy creating the situation.

But as far as a screenplay goes, I see it as a romantic comedy where the man and the woman are friends and have no intention of getting back together again, but of course, the kids want them to get back together again.

The plot is already there. What you have are the details and situations which can make it more credible and realistic.

It should be where they aren't back together, but little incidents happen that make it look like they are, and the kids are horrified because they are modern kids who remember how awful mom and dad were together. So they keep dragging in old boyfriends and girlfriends to try to keep their parents apart. And I don't know how it ends because I'm not good at that part.

homosexual relationships.

And all through the movie (I'm thinkin' movie first), they keep telling the kids they have to talk to them and that's just one more reason the kids think they're getting back together. But what they really want to tell them is they're gay!!!

conversation. And the kids are doing everything they can to avoid that conversation.

but the dad answered the phone every time he called...!

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Oh my god. I'm laughing so hard I think I'm gonna puke!

You better have a good explanation for this...

just to fuck with the teacher's head because that's always fun.

And you ex-husband answers the door in a bathrobe.

that he's so fond of!

Yeah, down the street. Well no, probably not. Because the ex-wife moved in with her boyfriend. You don't have a boyfriend with you do you??? It's the parents, two grown kids, one with boyfriend and the other with the aforementioned ex-wife and boyfriend. And little kids too.

Hey, whatever works. Roll with it.

Us parents, 2 teenage boys, one boy in the service and mostly on his own, soon-to-be-ex wife, and her 19 year old daughter with a new baby.

Interesting times... to say the least!

Being able to get along so well with your ex is a sign of maturity, not of any political bent.

Sounds like you were basically going to be life-long friends, but you went further than was right for either of you, you both realized it, and reverted back to being friends--only ones with three kids. So it doesn't sound strange to me at all that you would be able to talk so freely about past and current SO's, since the nature of your relationship sounds like it was always supposed to be just a very close friendship.

Whatever the deal is, it's great to hear that your kids have two parents who get along so well together, even if they're not actual "together."

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thinks we're sleeping together again!

You should see the jaws drop... we find it quite amusing. :rofl:

Or some other night, and get all drunk and come home all feeling horny and comfortable with each other?

on one of the cable networks

"I Love Viva"

I'm cracking up.... he's a little uncomfortable about the gay theme...
I got that little half smile..."ya, that's amusing"

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on edit: he's such a stick in the mud. That's why I divorced him! :rofl:
He said No Way! to our lives being put up on the big screen! :( I'll keep working on him..... shoot, we could pay off the house and put the boys through college!

Any man who can wear chili pepper jammies, oh, never mind.

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of a lifetime in which you spent part of it with your soulmate in a marriage and now you are just good friends; helping each other to learn this life's lessons in ways that work best for both of you.
Would be interesting to see where the two of you end up next time around....
Who says you have to be married to your soulmate in every lifetime? Maybe we need the unfufillment to motivate us in the correct learning direction.
Have fun!

that you will both realize that those qualities about each other which brought you together in the first place are still there, and now that you are both older and more mature, I would bet anything that you both reconnect. You obviously find comfort in each other, why else would you take the leap to share a house.

Oops, damn I am sounding like Dr. Phil or, gasp, Oprah.......... Take my advice, get a baby sitter, go out to dinner, and see what happens............

but we will remain friends.. no question about that! (because kids are involved)

But, I've never been good at making a long story short.:7

My life is what it is... and that's what you guys get.

:)

I don't think it's a sign of your political stance, just that you and your ex have a mature relationship. Wish my husband's ex and him got along as well as you two do, it would make it that much easier for EVERYONE involved. more power to you all.

is that you're a bigger woman than me, i could never do it. it has nothing to do with being a liberal.