Someone else is deciding the fate of our lives and our childrens, and there is piss all we can do about it.
Absolutely the toughest pill to swallow especially when you subscribe to the belief that we are each responsible for our own happiness and our own lives. I mean how do I get control, darnit???
But, I suppose, we master the little things one at a time and eventual, we get into a new normal. Like if we have a parent that is ill or a neighbor that acts like an a**hole...we have an ex who we need to deal with. It is lonely and scary and bizarre to fathom these people who were so central to our lives becoming peripheral and needing to just be managed but it happens all the time. It is truly the most difficult part of this for me and others I'm sure. Detaching. But, it can be done. And, we will have a modicum of peace when we are ready for it.
