@glitterbag,
It ok as you can be as nasty as you desire to be as I am happier then I been in years even with my logic telling me that due to the large age difference the relationship I am now in most likely will be fairly short term.
If my normal filters had been working my girlfriend would had been filter out as a possible mate due to that age difference alone, but they was not working and by the time I realized what was happening between us it was already too late.
As far as my commitment to my wife being shallow well the relationship span many decades and I am likely to remain on speaking term with her but she sure as hell let me and my mother both hanging when we both needed her the most.
My mother also loved my wife and they would travel together over the years but once more my wife was a no show when my mother would ask me and my wife, during her last months. when is she going to be coming back down.
In effect she was the one who walked away from the marriage not me. Hell I was not looking for an affair or ending the marriage and if she had been willing to shared the emotional and physical burdens of caring for my mother in her last months on earth the bond between us would had likely had been strength.
Oh and yes indeed my girlfriend was being paid to be a caregiver to my mother but not to be my main emotional support during that period. That is normally a job that is done by your partner not some paid caregiver but my so call wife was not there and beside doing the job she was hired to do my girlfriend spend untold hours keeping me together.
She was the one with me at the funeral home when I needed to made the arrangements and she was the one at my side at my mother memorial service not my wife.