All you can do is focus on yourself; embrace your new reality; accept it and move forward. If Walkaway catches up, that's great; if not, you're ahead of the power curve. And this is the tough time, early in the process, when the roller coaster is really up and down. It was brutal for me. For me one essential aspect of coping was clearly identifying for myself what I was -- and, more importantly, WAS NOT -- prepared to tolerate from Walkaway and spelling that out in no uncertain terms. The key to unlocking this door is you.
Another very important bit of advice I read from some old-timer: when Walkaway says something cruel, don't jump off a bridge; and when Walkaway says something nice, don't jump to Cloud 9. For example:
Quote:
He says he did love me and we were madly in love but that our love has died like a drowning child and can't be resuscitated.
*Yawn. Pure script. I'm pretty sure everyone's Walkaway around here has pronounced some variation on this theme. Yes, it hurts like h*ll to hear it. But as you'll find, there's apparently some kind of central office were Walkaways report to pick up their Script. So WAH gave you a nice bit of dramatic rhetoric there -- typical (it shows how "serious" Walkaway is) -- but you can put it exactly where it deserves to be. Which is in the dung heap.
