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I will be rich, famous and successful on all the crappy things X has done to me, and he will be poor, no job, without the woman who loves him, and he will be jealous as hell



Ironic, isn't it?

It's interesting that for several posts you have mentioned the loving your X part. Obviously you do or you wouldn't be here, but I sense a softening on your part and maybe moving back towards where you were before he tried to run you over with his car. I'm not saying that it's bad, but he's come around when you were in ice princess mode and I'm sure truly gave him the undeniable impression that you were through with him. I wouldn't lose that. Milk that for awhile. Make him crawl back more and enjoy the jealousy.

Now the big question...when he does notice that all of the things you mentioned are true (ie rich and famous and he has no job or woman) and comes crawling...are you going to take him back? Or will you kick him to the curb?

We are all here because we haven't given up, but after you've come so far and done so much I'd hate to see him drag you down. I get the impression that his ego demands that he controls you and that you cannot be successful if he isn't more successful.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt