Taken from life. “I'm 60 years old and I fell in love”: I want to start a new life, but children don't accept it

I am 60 years old. < img src = "https://zycie.news/crrops/0d0c61/620x0/1/0/2025/03/12/mykgft8mi5ce5ce09t1ttq0hemxu13e8yxowmp94oda.jpg" alt = "older pair @pexels" Style = "background-color: rgba (128,128,122.1)" > < p > for most of my life I was an exemplary husband. I earned well, provided my family with a house, stabilization, safety. My marriage was & Hellip; correct. There were no great drama in it, but there was no passion.

< p > We were like a co -molten; < p > and then I met her.

< p > and everything I thought was certain, fell like a house with cards.

< p > I did not plan it.

< p > I didn't look for love.

< p > but came.

< P >I met her by accident & ndash; conversation, smile, a look that & oacute; re made me feel younger by the whole decades.

< p > and suddenly I understood that I was dead for years, I only existed.

< p > I was afraid to tell the truth. < p > first wife.

< p > then children.

< p > but I knew I couldn't cheat anymore.

< p > one evening, at dinner, I took a deep breath and said:

< p > — I fell in love.

< p > silence. < p > my wife looked at me in disbelief.

< p > — What ?

< p > — I want to divorce.

< p > I felt my heart pounding in my chest.

< p > I was waiting for a scream, crying, for anger

< p > but she just laughed.

< p > — Do not joke.

< p > — I'm not kidding. < p > This time in her eyes I saw fear.

< P >The children found out the day p & oacute;

< p > — You went crazy ?! & Amp; MDASH; She shouted C & Amp; Oacute; Rka. & Amp; MDASH; You are 60 years old and you behave like a teenager!

< p > — This is no longer this age for falling in love — added the son. & Amp; MDASH; It's egoism. < p > — What about mother ? — C & Oacute; Rka had tears in her eyes. & Amp; MDASH; You want to leave her after so many years ?

< p > I looked at them and saw something I didn't expect.

< p > not only anger.

< p > disappointment.

< p > as if I was someone who stopped fitting to the role that played his whole life.

< p > father, husband, who should sacrifice.

< p > not a man with your own feelings.

< p > — And what about me ? — I asked quietly. & Amp; MDASH; Do I have no right to happiness ?

< p > — You've had your whole life to change something! & Amp; MDASH; dumped C & Amp; Oacute; Rka.

< p > — So now I should sit in an empty marriage, just because it falls out ?

< p > — This is how responsible people do.

< p > these words hurt the most.

< p > They didn't tell me that I should stay because they love me.

< p > they did not tell me that they want well for me.

< p > they only told me what falls out.

< p > I look at my wife now, who sits in the living room, watching TV.

< p > does not cry.

< p > I don't beg that I stay.

< p > It is indifferent to her.

< p > and I know that if I leave, children will never forgive me.

< p > but if I stay & hellip;

< p > I will never forgive me.

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