Hello French Kitty

I wouldn't say I'm happy but I am happier. I am happier than I was a year ago. I am definitely rising, though

I have been to Greece several times but not to live. My parents lived in Greece and my sister was born there and spent the first two and a half years of her life there but then my mother was pregnant with me and she moved to the UK to give birth and it's just as well because I was in intensive care baby unit for 3 months and the hospitals in Greece aren't as good.

The last time I went back was in 1996 - I took my oldest daughter there. She was only 6 months old but I wanted to bring her to my country just for a visit. All the locals loved her,and I've even got a photo of her being held by a nun.

H and I were engaged in Greece the year before (on a plane flying over Athens, lol) and we had 2 weeks showing off my ring to everyone and getting free drinks from whoever we met.

I've not been back in 9 years now but I did go to Cyprus in December last year for Christmas with Alicia. It's a Greek speaking country and my grandfather was Cypriot.

Andy's a computer technician. He builds computers and fixes them when they go wrong but he only does it part time because of the kids. Years ago he was a customer services rep for UPS and then he got a job in tech support with Dixons (electrical and computer store), then he was in college training to run his own business, then he set up his own shop, selling computers which he built.
Only it shut down when we broke up because he got depressed and didn't go to work.

When we first met, he was a taxi driver He was employed to drive me to college every day which is how we fell in love. Now he just drives me up the wall, instead of driving me around

The rest of his time now he's with the kids, doing this home education group.

We both got legal aid as his shop closed so he had no wages, and I wasn't working at the time due to depression and having a baby. Because I had my maternity allowance, they let me have legal aid.
The first court hearing that happened, my legal aid hadn't come yet so I represented myself in court which was scary.

I have family but don't speak to any of them. If you read some of my earlier posts I had a bad relationship with my mother and we now haven't spoken for 16 months.
When I was 'dark' I just lived on my own with Alicia as my only company.
I do visit friends quite a lot though.

How I dated Andy, well if you look at the thread 'dark dark dark' on this forum I explained to that guy how I dated him. I didn't really do anything except cut him out of my life completely and tell him I was never seeing him again, which I was serious about.
I let him come to me and initiate things and I followed his lead.
If you have any specific things you'd like to ask about how I helped move it forward, please do. I don't mind.

I'm having dinner with him tomorrow evening

Jo.