I am not a DB success in the terms that I got my H back & outlasted his MLC.
First off you are feeling a little sorry for yourself, so...I'll go lightly.
The goal...if you wanted to be married...and all the newbies do...admit it newbies! Admit it! is to be: Married.
Eveyone here...everyone, typed in: Save my Marriage on a search engine and found themselves here.
So the goal in MLC to be married is outlast their marriage.
But that was NEVER the definition of success.
Becoming a better person IS the deffinition of success.
IF my MLC wife came back to the same idiot self serving man-child I had been? Would THAT have been a success? First off...I would NOT have been capable of making it through pie(R)cing so that marriage with that 'old' Jack would have been doomed.
I CHOOSE to take my wife back and work through it becuase of the success 'I' had become.
Understand?
So you get a pass on the whole you aren't a success at DBing Shel, and I'm going to call you Shel...because you are thinking the old way with that.
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Life is usually all about how you handle Plan B. - Jack3Beans
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