What are some GAL activities and 180s you are doing or are planning to do? That's a good start...
For the most part, I continue to live as I lived when we were together. I've lost weight and started running since we split up - not because I like running but because I needed to set and achieve goals that were within my control. I've stopped traveling for vacation and to visit family and friends, which I miss a lot, but when he moved out I was left with a mortgage that consumed well over half of my income and now that I've gotten my financial house in order I am paying off debt. I've learned to do more of the repairs around the house (I was very proud when I replaced the clutch on my washing machine last winter). Those are the places where my daily life has changed. In the past week I've gone to a cider fest with a close friend from high school and her two little kids; I've gone to a birthday dinner for a work friend; I've gotten green beans at a local farm and pickled them; I've worked on a Habitat house; and today after church I'm helping to decorate the sanctuary. I don't think I have time to get more of a life than I already have. I guess the one big thing I'd really like to do and feel like I can't is move back to Chicago. I moved here because my husband got a job, and he's still here, not to mention that I am underwater on my house in a buyers market, so I don't think I'm really free to move until I pay down a lot more of the principal on the mortgage.
M: 43 H: 44 M: 12.5 if the 5.5 year separation counts Bomb (I dropped it): Dec '07 H said finit: Jun '10 I moved on: May '13
