Thank you all so much for your advice and tough love today. I read everyone but Virginia's post about 3 hours ago and needed to just not respond right away and step away for a while to reflect...

I just got back to the computer to sit down to respond and saw Virginia's post and am now in belly wrenching tears - literally. I'll have to tell you why later, as I can't bring myself to write anymore right now, but suffice it to say for tonight, Virginia, that I have not only one but two silicone bracelets on my wrist as I'm writing this that say "Living Deliberately"... That's all I can bring myself to write for now - must calm down to get some sleep. But don't worry about me, as these are good, having a breakthrough moment tears... Will expand more tomorrow. Thank you all for your heartfelt advice and support and for believing in me enough to lay it all on the line - it means so much to me that you wonderful people who used to be just complete strangers to me care enough about me to reach out to me, give me a hand up, tell me like it is, and want me to succeed - and thank you, my sweet Virginia, for saying just what I needed to hear tonight to bring it all together for me...

Living Deliberately,
Tam