Build a life for yourself and your kids. Slowly, in pieces. don't worry, you are not going to miss anything.
That's pretty good advice...especially coming from someone who's only 31.
As you know, getting left behind injures your self-esteem and self-worth. And you feel that if you're not moving on as quickly as your WAS is, that there's something wrong with you. And that dIminishes an already weakened self-esteem and self-worth.
I think attitude and reasoning have a lot to do with it. We have to learn to think in more healthy ways...in addition to doing as Gineen advised.
"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." - William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830's.