DEPRESSION/WITHDRAWAL STAGE

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Trusting,
I miss my D when she is gone, too. But H has not wanted her very much.

What I would say is that I really need some time to myself. I want to work out. I would like to make new friends. I would like to have a social life again. I was thinking that I need to be a role model for D2, and that means that I need to develop a full and happy life with her and without her. After all, she'll grow up and leave home eventually.

It's called reality check when the kids are w/OW. Give the kids lots of sugar and caffeine and sent them off!! Kids have a way of requiring unselfishness and destroying immature fantasies.

All the things that we could not negotiate w/them are going to become issues w/OW, and then some, because it is not her child.

I don't want D2 around OW, either, but there is nothing that I can do about that.