Morgan - yep, it's completely weird at first, but pushing through that fear is actually pretty exhilerating.

My first event was, believe it or not, a Valentine's day dinner with a singles/separated group. It wasn't a "dating" group, more of a "tired of sitting around waiting for the phone to ring" group - which is the only reason I was remotely OK with going. That was only about a month after H moved out. I was really afraid I was gonna be a wreck and was trying to find something to do, found out about this dinner, and with lots of encouragement from people here I went. There were probably 30-40 people there with the meetup group. And it was so much fun!!! I stood outside the place for probably 10 minutes just about to back out, finally took a deep breath and walked in - and it felt so good, to force myself to do that.

Sounds like a very good plan you have so far - it is great to check out meetup as part of the "new friends" side of things.

Me 35, H 38; Together 13.5 yrs, M 7
Bomb 1 10/07/06
Sep'd 1/14/07 - 4/15
Piecing: 4/07 - 9/07
Bomb 3 10/11/07: Never loved you, let's separate
2/08 slowly improving
7/08 Piecing (7/25/08 rings back on!!)
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