Your family and friends are going to want you not to hurt. Their advice is going to be geared to the "Pull the bandage off quickly" pull the trigger and move on approach. Hurts alot but over quick.
You're not naive.
Tell them you need their support in your decision to be married, and if they cannot help you in that, then you'll need to figure out who will when you need support.
Thanks, Jack. I have my parents and three siblings. Each approaches it differently, but I ask them to only support me. A few members of my family are only trying to protect me and my son, but by doing so are also very critical of W and would rather me file for D now and worry later. This is NOT what I want and have told them. The others are more compassionate and check just to see how I am doing on a certain day. These have been the discussions that I have been valuing. Right now, it is all so new to my family. I am trying to be very careful on what advice I use and what I pass.
Me - 33 W - 33 S - 9 months M - 3 years T - 5.5 years Bomb - 12/14/10 ILYBNILWY PA discovered - 1/18/11 PA began - 3/22/10 Separated
