((( shades )))

glad you're doing well.

who knows what's going on. i have those moments (like last night) imagining things are rosey, too.

and, maybe they are, FOR THEM. i think that's the key. they live the happy life of what makes them happy at this stage. the important difference is, it's not a life that would make you happy in a million years. it's not what you would choose to save your life.

you would not choose to bed a married man, allow him to live in your house in front of your teenaged kids, support him while he doesn't work, allow him to be incognito from his kids for months on end, sleep with him in the same bed in front of his kids in a hotel room on his first visit with them since they left, keep persisting even when his parents didn't want to meet you....well, you get the picture.

ick. who wants to have a relationship like that. who wants to live like that?

as for your h....putting your head down at night after you left your house and little girls and w....with a new woman, and her kids in the next room, when you are not divorced and not even close to it, no job, no friends, no regular touch with family.

yeah, sounds like a really great life. sign me up, pronto.

again, they act happy, and i really think at that stage, they are. good for them. it's still not anything you could sell me.

i felt this finally for the first time when i saw h at mediation. i could look at him directly and see that he was a man who lived a life i would not wish on anyone. simple as that. finally, i saw the 'incompatibility' grounds for the divorce.

we truly were.