Letting Go and setting them free

[Doodi]

appreciate little things in life

Like "Bounce" dryer sheets. They sure smell good, and they make your towels softer too.

You're killing me with the dryer sheets. Weren't you just on another thread talking about those.

FYI...I like the gain ones.

[TimeHeals]

You're killing me with the dryer sheets. Weren't you just on another thread talking about those.

What can I say? I really like dryer sheets

[DumpedforMIL]

i'm not rich like the author of that book. i don't intend to buy happiness.
things don't make me happy.

people do. family, friends, and sometimes even strangers. i appreciate people in my life. one day, it will all be taken away from you. so every chance i get, i spend it with people i love.

[TimeHeals]

How are gratitude lists going?

[ris]

How are gratitude lists going?

I started mine last night!

[DumpedforMIL]

on my own thread.

[pinhead]

I'm grateful to be alive. Five years ago, it was an unlikely thing. I'm grateful I've had the five years with my two daughters, and with my W. I'm grateful I'm awake from my fog, that I care about so many things with a passion I've not felt in years.

I'm grateful I have a job that pays me well; that my parents are alive, healthy and happy. That I live in the USA instead of some sub-saharan hell hole.

I'm grateful that my oldest daughter loves to swim like a mermaid, that my youngest loves nothing more than for me to pull her around the pool.

I'm grateful that my W is working as hard as she can on our M. That God has given me the strength and humility to trust him to watch over me and support me through this trial.

I'm grateful for the teachers who trained the surgeon who saved my life, the oncologist who kept my cancer from returning. The nurses who showed kindness when most of their patients die.

There's too much to be grateful for when you stop wallowing in Limbo, or stewing in your own anger and pain.

[TimeHeals]

I'm digging the gratitude lists idea (Thanks, Philip Zimbardo). It's working for me quite well, and there are a few people I know IRL that have started to do it, and they are also reporting benefits.

[Ready2Change]

Just read this on another thread:

Let her go,
even if you love her a lot and want her back badly,
let her go. That's the loving thing to do, give her the freedom she wants, she wants to be free of you, let her go.

Set yourself free.
Realize that giving her freedom is giving yourself freedom also.

Pack her things if you haven't already and ask her to pick them up.

Enjoy your life,
life is too short to waste on people that don't value you or the relationship they have with you, if these people want out so badly, why would you want them to stay?