I feel like MM is at a turning point in his life, a pivotal moment when everything could change. Or stay the same.
To bring you up to speed, in case you aren’t a long-time BMS reader, MM (Married Man) is someone I met in October 2009. We had this instant chemistry and spent the entire night talking together. Of course, as you can tell from the name I’ve given him on here, MM is married, and has been for a long time. Ten years to be exact, as I recently found out.
He doesn’t live near me, but by random happenstance, he does live extremely close to my best friend, someone I happen to visit several times every year and in a city where I was thinking about moving long before we met. Also strange happenstance, he is pretty familiar with the area where I live because he has family from around here and has visiting often in the past. So we do live four to five hours from one another, but we also see each other more than you’d expect.
MM and I have flirted, kissed, and snuggled nearly since we met, since I broke up with my boyfriend at the time the weekend after meeting MM for the first time. We recently finally took things all the way and slept with one another. Several times. It was an awesome weekend together.
MM isn’t a cheater because he lusts after other women or wants more sex. I mean, I’m sure those things are true, but he is just…unhappy in his marriage. It’s a complicated situation, and one that I don’t even fully understand myself, but the long and short of it? His wife is married to her job, not to him. She doesn’t really notice him anymore. She doesn’t want to do things with him and certainly doesn’t do things for him. Does he love her? I know he did when he married her, but I don’t know if he still does. I know he has felt an obligation to make it work.
At least, he has in the past.
Like I said, turning point. MM is visiting his parents this weekend (they don’t live near him, and it’s been about two years since he got to see them). The entire time, he’s been texting me. He referenced how weird it feels to be home, but how part of him does miss it. He said that he wishes he could take me there and show me around. Earlier this week, he was texting me about how he does wish that what we have could be something more, even though it can’t be right now.
I’m trying not to get in his way. I know that this is a decision he has to make on his own, and I don’t want him to ever resent me for making it, if he does decide to leave his wife. He’s told me that twice before, they’ve research this point, the point of considering separation, and both times he was the one to hold it together. Will he be the one this time? Probably not. But if push comes to shove, will she? I don’t know.
While he’s visiting his parents, he’s having lunch with an old friend from high school. In fact, that’s what he’s probably doing right now as I type this sentence. He mentioned that she is going through an extremely rough divorce right now, and he wants to talk to her about it. Their conversation could sway him to take action…or convince him to stay with his wife.
Also interesting, one of his friends, someone I’ve met and really liked, recently left her husband. I think the situation was similar – the feeling of not being special, not being noticed, not being loved. And she did it, she left, and he said that she is a million times happier right now. That must also be weighing on his mind.
I’m not going to lie. I hope he leaves his wife. MM is someone that deserves so much in this world. Good example: the other morning, it was snowy and he decided to take a sick day because he wasn’t feeling well anyway. But he still got up and shoveled out his wife’s car. He’s such a kind person, and beyond that…I think we could really be happy together. I’m talking really happy. It’s impossible to say if a relationship would work, but when I’m with him, regardless of what we’re doing, I just feel so…right. Like the world is an awesome place. And after over a year, I thought that would change, but it hasn’t. Granted, so don’t see one another every day or even every week, but we’ve hung out a significant number of times…and each time is better than the last.
I feel like right now, this year, is the chance he has for change. He hasn’t asked me to wait for him, and I’m not…but in some sense I am. I’m waiting to see what happens. I think that he will come to a decision in the next few months, maybe even in the next few weeks, and right now, I honestly don’t know what that decision will be.
But it scares me to think that I might lose this happiness that I’ve found.
I’d love to hear your thought, dear readers. What do you think of MM from the little I’ve told you? Would you wait for him if you were in my shoes? Do you think I’m taking the right approach, trying to give him space, or do you think that will come off like I don’t care about him?








