A Little Epiphany - (and a newbie delurking)

[Dia]

OMG - I was clearing out the stuff in what used to be my underwear drawer and I set something on the corner of the dresser while I continued to make space in the drawer. It dawned on me very slowly. There used to be a pic of OW on that corner of the dresser! Dumbfounded, I looked around on the floor in case one of the cats had knocked it off. Nope.

Then I looked on the wall where a collage of her and her D3 used to hang. Nada.

I was so relieved. They're in his sock drawer, which is fine by me. I didn't expect him to just throw them in the trash or anything. I'm not sure when he took them down - must have been during the long session of calls with her, his parents and assorted friends.

Earlier on, he thanked me for not doing anything catty to those pictures, and he's right when he said that no matter how much it hurt me to see them, I wasn't the type to have broken them, thrown them across the room or anything like that. Now, I'll confess that in my worst moments I've flipped her off when I walk by, and I've had a few to-the-point conversations with her about getting the heck out of my life and backing off my man but that's as far as it ever went.

When I saw that the pics were gone, I was relieved. And only relieved. I prodded at the relief for a moment, surprised that there didn't seem to be any vindictiveness in it. Then I gave myself a pat on the back for that. It would have been nice if this could have been done without hurting her, but that wasn't my issue to worry about.

At any rate, I'm moving back into the dresser in the MBR and cleaning off the top. Right now, it's a melange of dust, old receipts, books and who knows what.

Question for all of you: I'd like to do something really nice for H, a gift of sorts to say thank you for choosing me, for re-joining the M. Any suggestions? I don't think Hallmark makes a "Thank you for dumping your Mistress" card.