Wow you seem doing much better!
So glad you you are reconnecting with what makes you happy, bottom line is finding what is bringing you a positive outlook.
So funny you are mentioning that you husband trying to peak at your phone, my husband did that when I went back in contact with some friends.

My husband gave me as excuses when I caught him with OW1 (a mutual friend)
- that we grew apart because I was too busy with the kids,
- that I was always after him (asking for time together, family time ), not giving him enough space (he used to go for conferences or CMU at least every 2 months, spending his Saturdays with his friends)
so I was too remote and too close.. MLCer mind ... they will come up with whatever excuses to justify what they did, there are no excuses for cheating, but they have to swift the blame to us, to validate their actions. A few months later, after OW2 he said: nothing wrong with you, it's something within me...

I have 2 friends whose husbands cheated on them, their excuses:

husband 1 : she is boring and not smart enough (wife: bachelor in biochemistry... super nice and funny, always in good mood, raising the kids 100% by herself, taking care of his parents...)
they have been divorced since a few years, he is cheating on his actual girlfriend...and is very controlling.... ex-wife happily remarried with somebody worshipping her.

husband 2: wife not giving him enough time, she was taken care of HIS dying mother at their home until her death (while he was busy elsewhere), cleaning and cooking for him, raising his children 100 % by herself. He is living with his OW but kind of depressed, no contact at all with his children and cut all contact with previous friends. Ex-wife: surrounded by her friends and her children, became a very successful executive.

AD takes time to work (you know better than anybody as a physician), and since you are petite and a woman, you need less than the usual dose (it brings memories when I had to calculate drugs). I took Bubropion SR, it worked for me, my other friends took something else, we are all different...


Me 52+ WH 57+
Married 20 +
Piecing since 2016 (ready to give up...)