Quote: I also think that you could send a strong message to your H by having a party on the night he leaves. Why not have a girls night out at your house? Do whatever you want, drink wine, make quilts, bash men as long as you have your friends around you on the day he leaves. I'm sure doing this would suprise him, I'm sure he thinks you'll be at home sobing over him or something to that extent.
The night after my H left, he called the house and I did have my gf's there, it had already been planned. Something happened that we were laughing hysterically about and H called right in the middle of it and he said very angrily "So you're having a party while I'm out screwing around on you!"
It does help to have family/friends around those first couple of days or weeks, it was what go me through the worst of it.