Three weeks later I met Chrissy. We lived together for 3 years before getting married. The funny thing was the marriage only lasted a little over a year.

We knew it was a mistake after just a few months but stuck it out hoping against hope that things would improve.

They didn't and when Chrissy got a lucrative job offer from out of state, we hired a law firm to do the paperwork for an amicable divorce. We could have saved several thousand dollars if we had just waited a little longer to get married.

After she left, things really picked up at work and I got so absorbed in...