Actually, you know what? I'm feeling a little angry today.

Yeah, sure, I'll own the fear of being abandoned scenario. That's been mine for a while.

But the fear of betrayal? Why should I deal with that? I never worried about that before all of that stuff happened. I don't know why, I just never thought that the person I was M to would do something like that. I never felt insecure around other women, never compared myself to them. None of that sort of stuff registered on my radar. I was just busy being myself. But now, all that stuff that happened has made me stop and think, and worry.

But why should I be foisted with those concerns, when that was never my struggle anyway?

Can I just reject that? Just make a decision to say 'no thanks, I don't want **that** particular struggle'?


Me: 48, XH: 42
T: 18 years, M: 15 years

EA/PA 1: 6/2012
EA/PA 2: from autumn 2012-present

BD: 5/2013
ILYBNILWY BD & left: 10/2015

OW conceived: 8/2016
Born: 4/2017

H filed: 7/2017
D final: 28/12/2017