I am on the anniversary of two things. Yesterday was my actual M anniversary that W and I haven't really ever celebrated. Today is the 7th month anniversary of a hard, hopeful, painful, exciting, stressful, useful, nerve-racking, thankful, anxious, loving, threatening, hateful, confusing, wonderful, apprehensive, and soul-searching time of my life.

Quite the ride. Wouldn't wish it on an enemy, but I'm glad I'm going through it 'cause it means that in a couple years I will have moved ahead, with or without my wife. Together as a stronger family or alone but looking ahead toward new or different relationships. My kids will have certainty by then in either having a safe home or two safe homes - God willing of course.

So, to celebrate, I am ending my old thread and hoping it dies in the archives of my life and this site.

Out with the old, right?! Nope. But I need it to become a memory from which I've learned or at least changed.

If you want to get the history, you can go to:
for my old thread...

History below...