Just a little Monday update for my own notes. The weekend started off really well, did two GAL activities on Friday including meeting with my new mens group. The mens group is turning out to be the best thing I have ever done for myself. A great group of individuals just getting together to hear about what is happening in one an other's lives and supporting each other. I always feel so refreshed after attending and for any of the other men on here that don't have a group of supportive men in their lives I highly recommend it. Afterwords I went and met up with a friend for a drink and we spent several hours just talking which was really nice. Saturday started out well hanging out with the kids but I took a major step back with detaching and that continues today. Today is my birthday and we had a family celebration on Saturday night that just brought all the incredibly strong feelings of loneliness and hurt back up. I know these things will happen likely for a while and I just need to remind myself to keep focusing on my self and loving myself, accepting my sitch for what it is and eventually I will get past it but it was a very hard couple of days. Got a "Happy Birthday" text from W today, nothing more, nothing less, not sure what I expected but it was at least something. I'm learning more and more each day about myself, the person I want to be and the relationship I want to have with someone in the future and am making progress with forgiving myself for the mistakes I made in the relationship.
