Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

I gave the blasted Paltrow method a go and allowed a bit of conscious uncoupling to creep in

But I’ve come to my senses. I don’t want to stay friends with a former boyfriend who’s got himself a younger woman

issue 28 March 2015

The builder boyfriend has a new girlfriend. I suppose he was bound to move on eventually. I just never thought he would move on this quickly. From the day I told him, in the traditional female way, that it really wasn’t working and never would work because of things that were entirely his fault, to the moment I heard he had a new squeeze, I would say it was three weeks tops.

She’s nearly ten years younger than me. And, by the sound of it, a deal better off. Good for him. If I could have traded him in for a younger, richer model I might have. But we’ll never know, because I don’t have that option.

I’m a woman in her 40s and as such I did what all women in their 40s do: I told him that all this on-off nonsense wasn’t working and walked into the dark unknown of singledom.

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