It was my writing on your thread and others here that drove me to write down the process of healing and my journey.
It ultimately is the question we all have.
Everyone comes to this understanding if they truly have the courage to walk this path.
It is tough and it is painful.
I am one who has taken the first exit I described. In my first marriage. And although I didn't have this place back then you can see that I am back here anyway.
You, and you alone have to decide to make this journey.
Because you have to live it to learn it.
And it takes time
BUT
As the LBS, time is what we have in abundance...
It is up to us what good use we make of it.
This place starts out with trying to bust A's and save M's
but the real goal is to save yourself and by doing that you have a chance, a hope, to save your M.
My goal is to some day be the person my dog thinks I am