Hope I totally get where your coming from with the expectations & I don't think it's something you can just stop doing, like everything else it's a process.
I kept getting up my expectations when H was saying positive things about our situation or R then would quickly become upset/disheartened when he wasn't so upbeat, by keeping my journal & posting on here I realised my expectations were my main downfall and made that my main focus.
I also struggled to seperate hope from expectation, once I had that figured & stopped having expectations (both good & bad) I began to feel much more balanced - still work in progress though!!
Divorce Final: Oct 2014
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