Emotion?

Can't control that. It is by definition a spontaneous reaction to a situation or stimilus.

It will lose it's sting when you try to control it after it is felt.

THAT is detachment.

Detachemnt also helps to move onto understanding, compassion, and freedom...

That is detaching with love.

Then

Originally Posted By: CD
nothing is really "working"
-Divorce is the most likely outcome
-why am continuing to delay the inevitable if it is doing nothing more than frustrate me and make my own work and life more difficult?


This ^^^^

is NOT guaranteed. Nor does it guarantee it won't happen.

BUT

It WILL cause you all those feelings of frustration of attaching yourself,

attaching...WHO YOU ARE and HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE...

To these outcomes.

When you realize this it is not a sacrifice anymore CD.

It will not cause you doubt or pain.

It is only living your life...

Living YOUR life.


My goal is to some day be the person my dog thinks I am