Just a couple of quotes from my thread last summer when I finally started dropping the rope...maybe helpful to you, maybe not...
Forever Young:
Quote:
"It seems often the only way they wake up is when they realize that we are not available anymore."
This hasn't gone unnoticed by me. I do believe it has to be real though, we have to be truly "done", and content with that decision. And they have to be ready to reconsider. If we're playing the "no longer available" card just to try to win them back, they'll know, and it likely won't get us the results we are looking for.
and me:
Quote:
I had really pulled back emotionally, dancing on the edge of "done" and mentally started moving on, versus just moving forward. It appears she might have picked up on that, not sure.
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm
