Well, I have been reading along on a number of threads, and I have reached a place in my own situation where increasingly it makes me laugh more than it makes me cry.
Yes, it has been hurtful, very, and financially a bit of a disaster. And I agree that mostly we can simply pray for them, but let's not forget in all of this that they can be pretty funny [unintentionally].
And so I am in a new phase when I think of him as a sort of cartoon character or pantomime character, all swirling capes, and appearing and disappearing with flashes and bangs. Two dimensional, and like most demon kings, not hugely empathetic.
I am not calling my h bad names here - I loved him dearly, respect who is was and what he tried to do as a husband and father before all of this overtook him, but sometimes you just have to laugh . . . . .
It might help anyone at a difficult time to think of their MLC as over the top, hopelessly dramatic and self dramatizing, and frankly a bit of a cardboard cut out.
