The countdown continues

[Gardener]

Awoken,

Hey Gardener,I read a good part of of it last night, and again thanks for the recommendation of a great book.

I'd pass your thanks on to whoever it was that suggested it to me, but I forget who that was. hoosiermama, possibly.

I'm not sure where I am in those five stages, and I suspect I'm cycling rapidly through some of them right now.

I understand. I'm still kind of in withdrawal and internalizing the rejection. Waiting for the rage to kick in.

Three things really grabbed me when I first began reading it:
1) Abandoned spouses exhibit/experience almost all the symptoms of PTSD.
2) Just the name of the first stage/reaction: Shattered. "Exactly!", I kept shouting out loud even though I was, obviously, alone.
3) Susan Anderson says that in twenty-five years, she has seen that - to a man - there is a total inability to give anyone an abbreviated version of their sitch: they all are almost compelled to tell the entire blow-by-blow story. almost to validate the very real trauma they feel. "Oh, good! I'm not crazy," I thought as I read that!.