Kara, I just want to say I love your analogy about the dvd. That really speaks to me. Bravo for putting this difficult stuff into such an understandable picture!
And Tad, she's so right. MOJO. You lost your mojo. I lost mine too.
Stupid, but true...I didn't watch ALL of last year of the Simpsons. Why? After YEARS of faithful watching? Because that reminded me of XH.
I put the season premier on Sun. night and felt like I woke up from a LONG sleep...a lot of us stop living when they do this to us. We start coloring the entire world with what they did. And guess what? The world is still there waiting, just as it always was, and it has nothing to do with her.
That's the world you have to grab, Tad. I have to tell you that reclaiming who you are is the most amazing feeling. If you can't believe this for yourself, at least believe this:
One year ago I talked of nothing but suicide and despair and cried all the time and never slept and truly believed there was nothing worth living for.
NOW...I can't recognize the girl who did that. I am SO much different, so much better, and so much happier...it really can happen, Tad, if you work on it!
M45 Bomb 6/09; EA 6/10; Divorced 1/11 Proud single mom of 7 little feline girls and one little feline boy "Fall down 53 times. Get up 54." -- Zen saying