Just journaling some weekend revelations; the iPhone typing will encourage conciseness!
Feeling stronger in the midst of the overwhelmed-ness. I will handle xH and the CS and it will be ok because my priorities are appropriate. Mamabear rules.
I read something on gardener's thread that I've heard before, even said before--but it sank in at a different level. The man who left me is much closer to the real person than the one I fell in love with. For years I waited for that guy to show back up, and I did all kinds of internal gymnastics to make him resurface--but he was long gone. I'm seeing him again in xH and his new relationship--overlaid with the mean and ugly guy he is when he's not communicating in front of her (she's a therapist, and by all accounts good person who hasn't yet encountered the real xH yet; she wants to believe she's been instrumental in healing--she's naive, in the way all lovers are naive)
M60 H52 D20 M14 yrs OW-old gf from 1986 bomb-5/18/08 H filed for D-9/10/08 D final 4/24/09 xH remarried (not OW) 2012