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		<title>Dating: The Attitude Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To find a lasting relationship, you have to accept those relationships that won&#8217;t last. I&#8217;m a strange creature. At 53, I have a fair amount of experience at living. However, when I joined the dating world just over three years ago, I had no experience to speak of regarding dating, and the minute experience I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why I Usually Don&#8217;t Get All Pissy When A Relationship Fails</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 19:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t like drama. Finding a picture for this article was hard. That&#8217;s because a lot of the pictures I found imply feelings that I don&#8217;t have. (I&#8217;m not crushed, or angry, etc.) Or they imply the end of a long and intense relationship. It wasn&#8217;t the case here. My latest date told me minutes [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Senseless Breakup As a Zen Koan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[She put me in an impossible situation, and gave me the gift of a koan. I&#8217;m still reeling from the worst breakup of my life. Well, the worst breakup so far. There&#8217;s no telling if something even worse will come some day. It&#8217;s been almost two years, but last night a song came up and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Aphorisms Of Love: To Find Lasting Relationships, You Must Allow Those That Won&#8217;t Last</title>
		<link>https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2024/05/20/aphorisms-of-love-to-find-lasting-relationships-you-must-allow-those-that-wont-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 00:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A reflection on those relationships that don&#8217;t last. I was lucky when I met my ex-wife. It was my first relationship. It lasted 26 years, and our marriage lasted 22 years. It was a &#8220;hole in one&#8221; so to speak. Mind you, we did have some rumbles during our first year. We broke up four [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Girl Who Mistook Me For A Pile Of Bricks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wanted to give her everything, but she backstabbed me. I&#8217;ve mentioned it before. The queer world is rather small. You should be nice to the people you run into, even when breaking up with them. If you do not, you may get a cold reception the next time you run into them. I wanted [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Vale Of Tears, In Musical Form</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2023 15:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is how I tick, musically speaking. It is no mystery that I like to stim to music. My entire life is adorned with music. I bring music everywhere I can. Yes, even in the MRI machines that look at my brain to make sure my cancer hasn&#8217;t come back. If they allow me to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>More Examples Of Friction Between My Ex-Wife And Me</title>
		<link>https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2023/09/19/more-examples-of-friction-between-my-ex-wife-and-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I reevaluate my life, I&#8217;m finding more examples of the friction that my autism caused between me and my ex-wife. The reevaluation of my life continues, unabated. Sometimes things I had forgotten, come back to the fore when I discuss with other autistic people. I have collected here more examples of the friction that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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