Hi Lou, Just wanted to say, please keep going. You have done a big thing in getting on that plane and travelling. Massive.
You are spot on with understanding that you need to give things time.
That really is the key. There is no way around it.
I pounded the beach as a way of dealing with my sitch, and for the first year, I got little solace out of it. Eventually though, it came to be a good place for me and I started to talk to people and run into acquaintances there.
Like you, I also became sensitive to the way other couples interacted and saw how good, in many ways, my relationship had been. It still seems surreal to me, from time to time, that my XH has gone. But.... I've come to accept that that is what MLC is.
All I can confirm, at this stage, is that things DO get better with time. It takes a while though, but please keep on keeping on.
