as Yoda would say....the force is strong in you...

[AntoniaB]

Eric this is all so true, you have worked so hard and gained so much despite what you've lost. You are a success. What makes you an even bigger success is that you are so humbled AND yet so strong from this experience that you will fully work to keep growing and keep becoming a better person.

Your line about the gift of self, that's it in a nutshell. We lost marriages that were dying and we gained ourselves in the process. Perhaps we will be married again someday, perhaps we will choose not to be; who knows? But whatever we have in store, we are entering that next phase of our lives as much better people than we were.

We're all with you tomorrow in the pain and in the promise of what's to come.