AndrewP - you are right the silence is deafening and sometimes the message is loud and clear - 'you aren't important anymore!' :0(. That's hard to swallow..
Coly23 - I'm calling BS on this statement. You ARE important. And more importantly you are important to him. He's very likely so wrapped up in his own drama though that you're not on the top of his radar. Treat it as a compliment - that he's so confident that you'll be OK that he's not worried about you.
The other thing that I want to say is that you are important to you and to your D. Even though I'm not a particular fan of Michael Jackson I will often re-watch his "Man in the Mirror" video to remind myself that an individual is powerful and that we as individuals are important and can do great things.
I have a number of personal heroes who have done incredible things under impossible odds. One of the top of my list is Sir Ernest Shackleton - I don't know if you know his story or care but I'm going to tell you a bit because I have control of the keyboard right now (Bwah Ha Ha!!) Sir Ernest was a failure at many things in his life. He led a failed expedition to traverse the Antarctic continent. What inspires me though is that even though his expedition "failed", and even though with his ship sunk and his men stranded on an Antarctic ice flow he kept encouraging them, leading them and brought every man back alive. One part of the story is when he managed to get his men off the ice and on to Elephant Island he asked for volunteers to accompany him on the incredibly dangerous sea voyage to South Georgia. Every man volunteered - even those who could no longer stand because they believed in him and followed him without reservation. The ones left behind were filled with confidence that eventually "The Boss" would be back and rescue them. Overcoming incredible odds he did.
On BD H52, W50 T27, M26 S21, D23 BD-9-Mar-16 D-15-Jan-18 Final-19-Apr-18 I am a storyteller. The story may do you no good. But a story is never for the listener. It is always for the one who tells
