One more thing I will add about GAL. I struggled SOOOOO hard with getting out of the house. It seemd that everywhere I went, everything I did, I saw nothing but happy families and couples everywhere. It was like a slap in the face to me. I felt like a failure living in an world for happy people.
Seemed like it to me too. One night W and I went (separately) to S10's school open house. I remember standing there next to her and looking at the "happy" couples around the room. One was across from us with their 3 kids and I was thinking "you don't know how lucky you have it, you're not a shattered family like we are." About that time the wife picked up a "take home" school project off their son's desk, handed it to her husband and said "here, why don't you take this to your house." I was dying laughing inside, here I was being jealous of them and they were living in separate homes just like us!! So now I look around and wonder if ANYONE is happily married. Broken families, no-sex marriages, affairs, financial problems, is anyone truly happy? Who knows, probably not many.
