Life after exposure

[Still Waters]

It's always helpful to hear other people's thoughts and experiences, newgal, so thank you so much for your response.

I have been working on trying to stop thinking about my W and our R completely, but it takes time. I've gotten much, much better at it over the past few weeks, but it still does pop up from time to time. Always when I least expect it.

I'm going into week 2 of being truly dark, and it really has done wonders for me. It's hard, but for the first time since this all began I feel myself truly detaching. I now see that before this, I was obsessing about my sitch. I thought about it constantly and had a hard time doing much of anything. Even when I would go out with my friends, my mind was still elsewhere.

But now when I go out, for the most part I can forget about everything and have a good time. And I've been getting a lot more work done. So it's a process, and what they say is true. Time is your friend in all this.