Just got laid off

I'm female over 60.
Sorry about your situation, keep hope, it will change.

Also, as a woman let me warn you about jobs that separate husbands and wives for long months at a time and I'm trying to not go off color here so bare with me.

Males go through a natural hormone time where any hole is a need to be filled. Might be the nicest, loyal guy out there, but often it's just a hormone drive to procreate and sometimes alcohol can make self control even harder.

Now, with women. Unless we have and like ,"toys" to enjoy we also get hormone driven.
We are the black holes in the universe and need a mate.
We also often need a man's attention as we are more an emotional creature.
Being told," you're pretty today" or "you look sexy" goes a looking way with women.

You're long absence was something she just couldn't handle as well as other women who can stay alone for a much longer duration.

All income aside, the big house, women like those things but her little, hormone voice kept telling her how lonely she was, how you left her as a single deserted mother and disappeared for over a year.

Hormones never make sense, they are only chemical.

Next time you begin a relationship try one where your home every night.

Goodluck.

After 24 years in the gulf of mexico I just got laid off so it looks like I'll end up losing My house. No point in looking for work because I live in an oil town and jobs not connected to the oil industry only pay like 8 dollars an hour.