Sara-

I want to echo what others said -- take it easy!!! Nothing important is going to change over a few days, or even a few weeks.

Know that we are all rooting for you and your well-being.

It's hard to get to know someone just through the forum, but you seem to be a super intense, take the bull by the horn kind of a person. Strong willed. The flip-side of that is that I think you can get really wrapped up in your point of view, in your game plan.

I hope you will take a deep breath and take some time to just BE. And listen to various voices in your life that you value, including those that you may not agree with. Listen to the whole cacophony ... I think it's good to take the focus of your own voice for a while.

My two -- I mean, five -- cents worth ....

p.s. I encourage you to take the hijab off, if that makes you feel stronger. No matter what faith or culture, we all walk around with our own version of the hijab, mental or material.


Me: 50, MLC/WW 45
Young kids
Nov 2015: BD1
Apr 2016: BD2
Jan 2017: W filed
Feb 2017: D final