Happy Birthday Claire! I do hope you treated yourself nicely. I have yet to celebrate a birthday without STBX, even last year we did a family dinner at a nice restaurant.
Sometimes even now I have a few heartburn moments, had one last night as a matter of fact. But I took some space for myself and texted a couple of friends. And then I remembered how I do not want to go back to the life I had with STBX. And I move forward. That's all any of us can do Claire. You seems to be doing quite well these days, pat yourself on the back for me.