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Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts

In matters of love with a divorced man,
never believe what he says;
Only believe what he does
and does without protesting
and without your nagging him

Beware the lonesome, divorced man who waxes poetically and romantically about how he has never felt so wonderful as he does with you and how he can see spending the rest of his life with you, traveling with you, having you meet his kids, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Read my lips! He may have great intentions when he experiences that initial relief to the loneliness he had been feeling, but the chance of his following through on them is slight. And then when you start asking him later on what happened to all those great plans and promises he made without your asking him to, he tells you to stop nagging him and the chance of his following through goes to nil.

So what

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