It's maybe a three part question
REGRET ONE:- I'm not, shall we say, classically featured. I have a face like a bashed crab and grew up in the 80's, when looks meant everything. I've learned, a lot later in life, that I can be quite a sweet, nice, caring geezer and that means a lot to people.

There were a few opportunities for hot lovin', invitations, blatant come-ons that I turned down in my younger years because I was so hung up on my lack-of-looks that I just thought they were taking the piss.

REGRET TWO:- Late 20's. I'd shaken off the stigma to an extent. Then the large lady happened. She worked for a client and is best described as a pile of rubble with a football on top. Drunken sex happened, and the large lady was not shy to announce this. To anyone who cared to listen. I'm not about to say that she put the mockers on my career but nods and winks followed me forever more.

REGRET THREE:- A simple, easy to follow tale. Never marry anyone with a roaming eye and a libido that you just can't match. If I was down to my last fiver I'd lend it to ex Mrs TD, because she's scrupulously honest with money, but she'd shag any bloke she fancied within half an hour of meeting him.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Mon 12 Dec 2011, 0:01, 4 replies)

Addressing "Regret #3"
If you can't trust someone, you can't trust 'em. Having been a "jealous" type when I was younger (sometimes with good reason) I learned the hard way that -
1 - you've just got to let it go, otherwise it'll eat up your soul.
2 - when you realise you can't trust someone, you just can't trust them. They might earn some of that trust back but at the end of the day it'll never leave the back of your mind.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 12 Dec 2011, 6:34, closed)

What ^ said.
(lordy lordy, Mon 12 Dec 2011, 12:51, closed)

Totally agree
Its why i left the ex after 20 years. I finally realised that she wasn't going to change and i was fed up living with constant suspician gnawing at my soul
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 10:39, closed)

*click*
Just for the Bashed Crab and Rubble references.
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Mon 12 Dec 2011, 14:22, closed)