I think we all have certain dreams of who we want to be that we give up a lot of when we're married. Every career choice I've ever made was with family in mind first. Now you're putting you first. Probably for the first time in a heck of a long time. All those things you wanted to be, you wanted to do. Now there is nothing stopping you. You can let this eat you up and wallow in sadness or you can get up each day with a sense of being a little better today than you were yesterday. Your life isn't even half way over yet. You'll mourn this loss like the death of a close relative because that's essentially what it is but you're not dead. Life is for the living so you have to get busy living.
