2moro,

Even having experienced it before myself, I don't know how you did it. I'm so glad for you. Please feel free to give me any advice or knocks. Maybe you can remind me what works and what didn't.

Yes H has had many triggers - the accident/operations/recovery, forced retirement, uncertainty over his future, friend just found out he has cancer, my mom dying (although I'm not sure that was a trigger for him), and now having to start some care-giving for his parents.

I'm working towards being at that place where I can feel friendship toward him again. I do understand why he left. But I'm not there yet because I feel that these plus work stress and menopause were triggers for me, and just when I'm hitting my rough patch, he abandons me because it got a little difficult. It's not as if I didn't fantasize about running away.


In4ride
Me 50, H 55, M 17 yrs
1st Bomb Drop 12/7/03
Separated mostly in house
Come back together/H breaks back 9/04
Piecing, surgeries, recovery, H retires
2nd Bomb Drop 9/3/07 H moves out 20 min later