No, the people in my inner circle all love my wife. My best friend and his wife introduced us, my parents love her like a daughter, that's why this hurts them so much, my brothers all really like her, my SIL's all really miss her. No one has said things like I can do better, because it's not about that, it's about keeping commitments and working through hard times not giving up the first time things get tough.
Also, I really liked her family. I got along great with all of them. I really respected her parents, they were excellent examples to us and our son. I would have never guessed they could be so calloused about this toward me. I kind of feel like a member of the family that was just tossed out like yesterday's garbage. It's hard to deal with.
So anyway, it is what it is. I hope and pray constantly that it'll get better, I still believe it can.
We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory - we are creatures of our thinking.
3/31/07 - Hit with a brick, leaving the dent there...