I regret leaving my wife and children to live a single life.

I long for a warm family home, with a loving wife and obedient children. My wife has remarried, and my children are wayward and neglected by their parents.

When I was 30, handsome, had a good job, well-off parents, had been married for 8 years, had a 5-year-old daughter and a 3-year-old son. I used to yearn for freedom. I was bored with my wife because she was always preoccupied with the children and household chores. I cheated on her and divorced her, leaving her to raise the children. I was free to go out drinking with friends every day, have coffee with pretty girls whenever I liked, date beautiful women at work without anyone stopping me, date one girl for a few months and then move on to another, sometimes two or three. Every day was busy with parties, drinking, and young women. Things done secretly seemed exciting, food tasted better in small portions, and occasional fun was enjoyable, but being completely unrestrained was boring.

I'm 42 now, I've tried everything, I'm tired and fed up, still single. I get bored with every relationship after a few months, nothing ties me down. Sometimes I want to just marry someone, but the good women I know are already settled down with their husbands and children. I long for a warm family life, a loving wife, warm meals, and well-behaved children. My wife has remarried, and my children are unruly and beyond our control because we haven't paid attention to them for so long.

I dread being alone at night in my empty house, with the kitchen cold and silent, and tired of eating out every day. "A warm family home" is where you return after a tiring day at work, and your life partner is someone you trust and share joys and sorrows with – that is happiness.

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