The thing about being on this board is that it is simply too painful for me to read all the posts about the LDWs. My changes are still new and my skin is quite thin, so I don't think it's the best thing for me right now.
Using the alcoholic analogy again...what might it be like for a newly recovering alcoholic to hang out on a board where people go to vent about their non-recovering alcoholic spouses and how difficult their lives are with these people. I don't imagine it would make said newly recovering alcoholic feel very good.
I have enjoyed writing back and forth with LS and have felt positive about my exchanges with her. Maybe the same way that one recovering alcholic might feel talking to another at an AA meeting. Does this make sense? We know what it's like to be in each other's shoes, just as all of the HD folks do with each other. I think this is what was driving my feeling of not fitting in, but I didn't get it until now.
I am in the middle of my own kind of recovery and I need support. Not that you guys aren't supportive, but this is, afterall, the SSM board. It's not the same as if the board was focused on the recovery of LD folk, and really, LD women, because LD men are a whole different animal I think.
It might be helpful if there was such a board, but maybe there wouldn't be enough posters to keep it going.
