This relationship has no future. This is absolutely not a woman you seriously want as a future mother of your children. You know that. You don't really want her . . . even if you were never going to have any children. But you feel guilty.

You'ld like to help her to straighten herself out. Forget it, forget it, forget it. You can't take her on as some kind of a "project" that you'ld like to work on for awhile. She was comfortable to be with. The sex was gratifying. It would be fun to spend some more time with her. I get all that. But you are not falling in love and you're not going to be. Letting her go now will hurt her. In six months, it will hurt her more.

You are facing the dilemma of realizing that you have access to a woman who was pleasant to be with on a temporary basis, but you utterly do not have a longterm interest in her . . . and you kind of feel like a heel. Let that be a lesson to you.

It's not really okay to sort of kill some time with an uneducated woman who has a bunch of problems. Not for a man as well-educated as your writing shows you to be. Stick with women who are your peers, in terms of the advantages that life has given them. Basically, you went "slumming," but you have sufficient character to not feel real good about just discarding this gal. Sooner, or later, that's exactly what you are going to do. So get it over with. Say good-bye, for her sake . . . so she can move on and connect with someone on her peer level. At age 33, she already has a pretty limited future to look forward to. You can't change that. Let her go and find a guy who is similarly screwed up. That's what is going to happen. Don't drag this out to try and make it about you wanting to feel noble.