[Patton@Bastogne]

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Skylar was not the love of his life ... He (Walter White) did it because he liked it. He did it because it made him feel alive. And the obvious inference is, that she (Skylar) did not.


At the tender age of 58 I've come to believe that "true romantic love" equally and passionately shared between two individuals (man and woman) is a cosmic rarity.


How many of us have a "true love of one's life" that was unrequited, and we were forced by time and reality to leave that wonderful dreamlike possibility in our past ?


Then, how many of us then "settle" for someone that outwardly attractive, kind, gracious, and that we can even develop great affection (approaching love) for ...


yet ... that "great love of one's life" remains etched on your memory, almost a part of our soul's DNA ... visiting you occassionally in the night's dreams ... calling out your name when you visit places that you shared together ?





In the end, you can't blame Skylar ... because Walt wasn't the "love of her life" either ...




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[FredZarguna]

This kind of wound is actually intimated pretty strongly in the first season, where we see Gretchen and Walter together, his subsequently selling his share of Greymatter for some paltry sum, and the vehemency of his reaction against her offers to help.

Luckily, this did not happen to me, and at the ripe old age of 57, my wife of thirty years is "the last true love I'll ever need."