I'm pleased to see SteelersFan and ANewMe dropped by to introduce themselves. I think Holly has too?
I wanted to hook you up with some women who are going through similar experiences to you and they are the best there is. They are all about your age, with similar lenght marriages and young adult children who are wonderful supports for them.
Penny, it's hard to know what to say to you, because you really are doing quite well, regardless that it mustn't feel that way to you!
The best thing for you to do now is concentrate on your GAL (getting a life), PMA (positive mental attitude) and detaching from your H. In some ways he's off with the pixies. He doesn't know whether he's coming or going, and I can guarantee you, from the reading I've done about MLC, he's in a pretty bad way himself at the moment.
The key for you is to be the best you, you can be, use this time to refil your self esteem and self confidence and get on with it. Be the woman he will prefer to be with. He's infactuated with a new woman - so what - he'll get over it. It's a kind of 'puppy love' and usually doesn't stand the test of time.
You are a wonderful, strong, sensitive woman and you don't deserve what's happening to you. Use this time that he's on another planet to look after yourself.
You'll be OK.
V
Never make someone a priority, who makes you an option.
