This need not be the end.

[Mozza]

Great update, Barry! It sounds like you had a really good week, with a big improvement in your PMA (and sanity!) since last week. I would venture that being NC with your WAW made a big difference. I know it does for me -- go to my thread to see what 2 x 1 minute encounters did to me yesterday. I'm glad you're making inroads with your IC and reading the books.

The convertible car sounds like a fun choice! I know what you mean about tangentially making your WAW jealous. I think it's perfectly normal at your stage of the sitch. I'm 5 months ahead and I still have that thought sometimes. It's not at the forefront anymore though.

Get ready for being very patient. You've likely embarked on a voyage that will take at least a year. Think about that. Even I, knowing and preaching this, sometimes feel like making things that would stop the wait. It will get worse before it gets better, but it doesn't mean it will be bad forever. My IC is really encouraging me to see the good in my sitch. That's not how he puts it: he rather makes me confess that there were things I didn't like in my M and WAW and that they're gone now, that I have opportunities I had given up, etc. It's really helping me to cope with the difficult times.

Keep smiling.