Rushed today at the office so quick reply but know I think of you often. Thanks for your thoughts, too.
I'm giving notice at work next week. Then home to be a full-time mom! One child starts school in 18 mos, the other, the other is already well established but I feel I missed so much when they were little, esp. with the 2nd child, and now I want to make up for time lost. I like it that you said homemaking is your PASSION--I think that's great! It's about to become mine!!!!
You are doing the right thing in burying the past. Making a new start. If privately things start to haunt you, work that out with a counselor. The less guilt and blame and shame you dump on him (though he probably deserves it!), the better. That was my mistake after my H came home--clinging tightly to the hurt. Nothing he could do could make up for it.
And it's true: they probably CAN'T make up for it. The choice is ours to release them from the bondage of unforgiveness. You are a wise and big-hearted lady, a special person indeed.