Down But Not Out - Part VI

[Phoenix9]

Ugh...there is that awful burning sensation in my chest again and now my eyes are welling up with tears. When am I going to get past this??? It still hurts so much.

(((DV6)))

You will. In small pieces, but you will. And it will continue to hurt. Some days will be more painful than the others.

But you will also be healing. It's like recovery from a serious accident. You don't get better quickly. It takes months upon months for recovery.

I can truly say that yes, overall, things go and WILL get better in time. You may not feel it day to day, but over a prolonged period you will notice a positive change.

You just need to remember to keep taking care of yourself. Love yourself. Think about what makes DV6 so wonderful and build on that. Make the world know of your amazing traits. Let your body scream the amazing qualities you possess.

I just have this awful picture in my head of my H reinventing himself with wife #3 and becoming the husband he could have been with me if he had felt more like a man and less like a rebellious teenager.

He will not be. He is not putting the work in now. And even if it was, it's half-assed. Half-assery does not get anyone far. Sooner or later it will come back to bite him.

hindsight is always 20/20, isn't it?

Yep, but how would you know what went wrong and how to fix it if you did not go through the event? Learn from it and work on not letting it happen again.

Are you following the advice given here? What GAL activities are you doing? Snowing out... well is there skiing in your area then go... movie theater... go... gym.... go.... start moving keep busy. Its the only way out of this. Sitting there thinking about everything you could have done or would have done is not helping.

This. Fake it until you make it. It does work.