If our youngest theoretically leaves the home at exactly years old, I’ll be in my early 50’s by that point and facing nearly 20 years of disinterest…ridiculous If You Give A Mouse A Mask He Can Go Back To School shirt . Enter this latest work trip: after calling back home multiple times only to hear the same, negative outlook that I left behind, I finally snapped in a rage of resentment. Nothing was going to change anytime soon. This was not a spur of the moment decision to fool around with a random girl one sultry night. I was in anguish over the conscious realization that I had wasted nearly 10 good years of my life beating a dead horse, and it was time that I’d never get back. A non-negotiable drive to have an affair appeared.