You are so sweet, thank you! There is no doubt I will need to have a place to be when I miss him and peopel will actually understand. If I was a tap, I would shut my emotions off and be done with it. But I am learning that it does not work that way. I've never lost a limb but that is what this adjustment period feels like to me. Starting over and filling in the gaps, letting go of all our exciting plans for the future. And putting my hopes on a shelf in case he is permanently out of my life.
Mrs. and KML,
I just wondered why of all the countries in the world you picked Italy. I am - with and without SO - quite an experienced traveller and have visited some of the more remote corners of the world. I just wondered.