Have you let her go?

He has not come up with any specific plan to woo me back.

At the back of my mind this emotional "forever love" connection with his exes lingered. 

Where do we go from here? Nowhere literally. I am done.

Our story could have been better.

He could have made a choice: me over all the other girls.

Interestingly no choice/ omission IS a choice in itself.

He held on, never letting go.

Maybe he wanted everything, and everyone.

Have his cake and eat it, so to speak.

At 46 (when we married), he would know the differences between

marriage, love, lust, crush, care, friendship.

Or are those too many nouns for him to handle all at once?

So he took the "big picture" approach and lumped them together.

Easier to manage, so long as I never found out.