What a heartwarming update. It's nice to see people who get better every month. Your strength is showing more and more. I like how you handle the paperwork with lawyers, despite your H's protests.
Originally Posted By: Maybell
Also, I sort of hesitate to mention this because it sounds so vain, but... I'm becoming aware of myself as attractive. Before all this happened I barely thought of myself as pretty, and I certainly never heard that I was. STBX used to make fun of me for having no sense of humor (which I do regard as a dreadful failing). But now I hear how fun i am all the time, and how smart, and not only that I'm pretty but even that I'm "stunningly beautiful" -- all the time. Even my lawyers tell me (WEIRD!).
I'm sure it's well-deserved! You come across very well here, as you can tell from your fan club. I don't know why but I always imagine you with a long, flowing dress. Gosh, I wish we all had a convention with our name tags. "Maybell?! I thought you were a brunette!"
Anyway, I've had this experience too: a few months after BD people would give me random compliments. My mom's cousin interrupted me mid-sentence to say "But you are really handsome!" I had started taking better care of myself by then, but perhaps it's something that's shining from within, as you say.
By the way, it's very possible that your H didn't get your sense of humor. A couple of years ago, I was telling a close colleague that my W loved my sense of humor and she replied "But you're not even funny!"
M39 D6 D3 (at S) S 2014-09 D 2016-09
"You can't start a fire sitting around, crying over a broken heart" - Bruce Springsteen.
