Mama,

I will add this. Cherish these times too because if your life is anything like mine (or most people's for that matter) there will come a time sooner or later that due to no fault of yours or H's, life will be difficult and the ability to be happy is diminished. It will be in these trying days that the foundation of happiness you are building will be important. It will be when the smiles are fewer and farther between because of some of life's OTHER dramas (job issues, kid issues, money issues, etc) that you will look back on these days and realize that it IS possible to be together and be happy with this man, and he to realize the same about you. I think that's another thing that happens in these sitches, that they become self fulfilling if we are not careful. We spent all this time before the sitch being in a bad R, then all the negative feelings of the confession/discovery, yelling, crying, detachment, distancing, anger, resentment, coldness, etc, that we build up this incredible reservoir of negativity and it's really hard for either party to understand that anything else is possible.

Cherish the moments, prepare for the future of uncertainty and smile REALLY big the whole time!

GH


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