Reply #32: I think it happened to me..

[Fumesucker]

I'm fairly certain that if I had not met the woman I married thirty years ago that I would have been dead or in prison within a year or two of that time, I was definitely on a self destructive course and all alone. Having someone care about you and share their life with you makes a huge difference.

But I don't necessarily think it's a "good woman" so much as a "good person" or maybe, "the right person" or even "a right person". As someone pointed out basically the same thing can happen to gays who meet that certain partner or a woman on a self destructive course can meet a man who makes things better for her.

We recently got divorced but I blame myself more than I do her, I have a chemical imbalance in my brain that has become more and more difficult to deal with over the years, been stabilized with various meds multiple times and they never seem to keep working. I'm a difficult person to deal with in a lot of ways but I'm nowhere near as self destructive as I was thirty years ago either.

"Life is what happens while we are busy making other plans." -John Lennon

John would know about meeting the right person I think.