Originally Posted By: Grizz

Tomorrow is a new day. I just don't see it getting any better until she moves out. Then i picture life being terrible for a while. Then as time goes on things will have to start getting better. I just hope that is sooner rather than later. June 8th will be hanging over my head for the next month. Every day is one step closer to her being gone. It's all so sad.


Sorry you're going through this! As you know it's almost a carbon copy of my sitch. For me it was pure misery during that interval you're in right now- between W announcing she had a place up until the actual move-out date. When she left I had a rough couple of days but then started feeling a lot better about things. It was actually easier on me once she was gone, that was when I truly started to detach and get more independent. Those feelings lasted for 2 weeks until the first time the kids went to her house to stay for a week and I was home alone for the first time. Man was that awful. That too got better, but even now it hurts a little to turn the kids over to W.

Just keep up the GAL activities when you go through this, that for me was key to getting over the grief and getting used to the "new normal". It sounds like you have a pretty good feel for what you're going to go through so I think that'll help you a lot in being prepared for it. Good luck!


Me: 60 w/ S18, D24, D27

M: 21 years; BD: 06-14-12; S: 09-10-12; D final: 03-17-14; XW:57