Sunshine, Thanks for finding me I too noticed some similarities to our stories. After almost a year in therapy, I have finally come to peace with myself. I like me again Now my work is to be the 'new me' everyday so my kids can have a good mom, I can be proud of my growth...and hopefully, my H will see that these changes are permanent.
When we figure out the detaching thing- we should call Oprah, maybe we can get a show on her new network I see my H everyday (even though I try to avoid it) and I still get the butterflies and want to run and kiss him... in my head I can detach and rationalize everything, I wish someone gave the memo to my heart
I'm struggling to GAL. My kids take up the majority of my time. But my H and I have made a weekly schedule in which I get all day Sunday and Thurs. night to myself, so I've been trying to find things to do. **I've discovered something about myself through this process: I'm more introverted that I ever thought. All of my GAL ideas- are individual. My H was always a social butterfly, so I did everything with him, I just never realized that if I had my choice, I would do things alone... So that is a 180 I have implemented for myself: to GAL with other people.... but haven't had any luck
Reducing my stress is my main prescription from my cardiologist. My heart monitor is a watch (a gift from my H when he found out about all this- even though we were separated) and it is set to go off if my heart rate gets too high... I've learned that being around him (even good times) can get it to go off. I think my anxiety of 'what's going to happen next' gets is going. So like you, I will try to stay 'in the moment'... after all, I can't stay in the past and I can't jump to the furture
M-31, H-31 T-9, M-7 S-6, s-20mth sep 8/1/11 ILYNILWY 11/29/11 Creating separation papers. Discover H has feelings for BFF, she does too 1/11/12 H moves out 1.20.12