Well, I'm 3 days in and I know I made the right choice. I am really enjoying it. Teaching is such hard work and there is always something to do but I am never bored which I have always been in all my jobs before.
I'm teaching 9 year olds and luckily they are a really nice bunch. My teacher mentor is great too. I took the register yesterday and today I minded the class by myself for 15 mins. There were no riots luckily
I'm learning so much all the time and working 10/11 hour days but I don't mind. It really gives me something to do which I have craved for ages. THIS was the reason I came home from backpacking.
It's always nice to have a job in a field you are passionate about and in my opinion 8 year-olds are the perfect age to teach - eager to learn without the attitude like older kids sometimes have. Enjoy the new job!!
One year and one month after he married ow he left her with no explanation other than he just didn't want to be with her any more. Apparently she has no idea what happened. That was exactly what he did to me, although it was after 15 months of us being married.
I feel quite shocked really. I don't really know why. I read an email that she sent to a mutual friend and it was almost exactly the same as the emails and communications I had to send out after we split.
I seem to be having a fair few emotions. Part of me is worried about him (?!), part of me feels sorry for her that she is being put through what I went through (but if you will knowingly get tangled up with a married man you will get burnt). But a huge part of me feels a bit vindicated as I spent so long raking over myself trying to work out what I did wrong - what I did to make him reject me like that? Was I a boring person? Was I not pretty enough? Did I over nurse him through his illness? And it turns out... it wasn't me.
I had come to that conclusion myself a couple of years ago now. I accept my faults and what I contributed but there is something obviously very wrong inside him.
I am now so fulfilled in teaching and my change of career and am so happy that I have had the travel opportunities that I have had rather than being married to him. I am so grateful now that he left me and I was forced to change my life's course. I never would have had such adventures! Still, I can't believe he did it again!!
WOW! Just Wow. I'm completely speechless. Yes, indeed, he is a broken person and until he figures out exactly who he is and what he wants he will continue to leave a trail of destruction behind him. I'm kind of sorry for her too, even though she was dumb enough to get involved with a married man.
You, my dear, sound absolutely wonderful! I'm so happy for you!!! You have made your life exactly what you want it to be. You are right, you wouldn't have had all of these growth opportunities if you had remained married to him. He did, in the end, do you a favor.
Doing happy dance for you right now!
T19 M15 S19 XH47 M43 bomb12/4/07 PA5/07 S12/26/07 D final 11/17/08 Back together with no defined R 05/2010 confused....to say the least!!!
It's definitely a calling.