Thanks DG and Country Song.

DG, I've applied for a sliding-scale community health service and had to get a letter from my employer - so humiliating, but I need some mental health help, I know I do.

CS, you are right, I need to try to find some happiness. My goals need to shift. You are an amazing survivor of having your own heart ripped out, so I know it can be done.

I know I have to look where I started from...not thinking I could survive and here I am six months later. Happiness just seems so far off. It seems years away.


Me: 35
Him: 43
Together: 19 1/2 years
1st Bomb (IDLYAM): March 2011
2nd Bomb (OW): April 2011
He abandons home/bills/everything: May 2011
He's bought a new house for OW: September 2011