Originally Posted By: raws
Thanks guys. Today was horrible. Horrible. I feel like I'm going to just break down and lose it any minute. No contact from the W. She didn't say anything about receiving the note. I wasn't expecting it to make her turn around and you guys prepared me for not hearing anything about it, it still kills me though.

It [censored] but at least you were prepared.

Originally Posted By: raws

Went out to dinner with some buddies and didn't enjoy myself for a second. Just kept thinking about this and what I've done to get things here.

This is tough, but you can't spend your life dwelling on the past. What's done is done. Learn from it and move forward, right? That's all we can do. Don't let the last five years ruin your next five!

Originally Posted By: raws
Begley, you're right. Things have just kept swirling and swirling around my head and it builds and gets worse. I keep thinking about how things are going to be when I get home, how disconnected this woman I love is going to be and how terrible everything is going to be. I've been trying so hard to be positive but it's just getting harder and harder. For the first time since this all started i feel truly hopeless.

Fake it until you make it, raws. The happier you act, the happier you'll BE. You don't need your W to make you happy. You can be plenty happy all by yourself! I highly recommend a TED talk by ... Take the challenge, raws - I'll bet you can find 63 things to be happy about that don't include your W!

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