Learning to lay out and enforce boundaries is INCREDIBLY empowering.
Puppy
It does feel it already.
However the last boundary I laid out (no contact between my W and my D) fell apart as I simply wasn't strong enough to let my W go completely. I'm trying not to beat myself up about it as I just wasn't ready to do it. Just like I'm not ready to completely give up on the relationship but I am trying to ACT like I am.
I'm under no illusions that this new boundary may fall away but it's one that only affects me so it maybe easier to keep up. Whenever I'm confronted with the stuff, I take a deep breath and calm myself and move on.
Me 36, W 34 | D 8 | M 3.5y Sep 2Aug09 | Left 6Sep09 | OM in 10Oct09 | NC 17Nov09 | Gave up caring - Jan 2010
"Have integrity. Do what is right, not what is expedient." "Delay is the antidote for anger"