I'm so thankful you're not in that spot anymore. I'm sorry that you still have to live with the aftermath.
Dreams are odd. For some reason I'll share a dream my best friend had last night. He dreamed that he was driving down the road when there was a terrorist attack. In no time flat it turned to a post-apocalyptic world. He stopped at a gas station and this lady was trying to get to her car, but this sinister guy was lurking in the shadows like he was going to attack her. He escorted the lady to her car, but after she left the guy followed him into the gas station and started moving in like he was going to attack. My buddy grabbed two glass bottles of coca-cola and broke the ends off, using them as weapons as he prepared to defend himself. His first thought was "gotta go for the neck and try to open up an artery", then he thought "boy, the terrorist attacks were only a few minutes ago, the situation sure escalated quickly!" It was kind of humorous to him how it went from a normal evening to battling strangers with broken coke bottles in the gas station in no time flat.
I don't know why I'm sharing other than I thought it was funny, and I'm proud to have a friend bad-a$$ enough to handle even a dream villain that way.
As for you, if it's anything like it is for me I hope things start moving with your D very quickly. You say you are just starting on the financial piece, but with XH it sounds like a lot was frittered away. Is there much left to fight over? What type of timelines are you saddled with?
You've been on your own for a while now. Are you turning thoughts towards dating again, or are you kind of hunkered down and just trying to recover for a bit like I am?
Who is in your support group? What do you do for fun on the weekends, and who do you spend your time with these days?
I'm sure we've talked about this, but I can't remember so give me a little insight. Glad you're not off to surviving just yet. Your posts are awesome and the newcomers are lucky to have you around.
Me:38 XW:38 T:11 years M:8 years Kids: S14, D11, D7 BD/Move out day: 6/17/14, D final Dec 15