Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Page 1 of 2 1 2
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 476
Member
OP Offline
Member
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 476
What to say? What to say? It’s been forever since I last posted… Forever since I thought there was any, and I do mean ANY chance to hope or dream there were any redeeming qualities between myself and my husband…. My “soon-to-be-ex”, if we want to be specific. For all you cronies still working at it via this forum… you may vaguely remember my sitch. For the rest of you, all the nasty details about how much I’d come to hate my relationship WITH my husband can be found in threads such as:

http://www.divorcebusting.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB24&Number=435179&fpart=&PHPSESSID=

and…

http://www.divorcebusting.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB24&Number=440852&fpart=&PHPSESSID=

and…

http://www.divorcebusting.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB40&Number=447270&fpart=&PHPSESSID=


and…

http://www.divorcebusting.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB24&Number=443660&fpart=&PHPSESSID=

I’m sure there are more, as I am quite the disorganized SPAZ, however…

The short of the long of it is I AM A WALK AWAY WIFE. On my birthday last year… some 8 months ago, I asked my Husband to move out. And move out he did. He was incredibly angry and hurt and scared and shamed. His ego, the ground zero explosion site of this particular nuclear family.

Well. Much was done. Much was said. I even slept with a man on the brink of his own divorce and who’d decided to go back home. I entertained hope with an EOM and found that fizzled upon our first meeting in person. H has been an incredible @$$, yelling, blaming, threatening, begging, pleading this whole time, up until about three weeks ago. Imagine… 7 whole months of hate and fear and adrenalin. (Knowledgeispower was “out” 7 months, I remember, but I wonder if it was like THAT.) H’s family and our mutual friends have all but excommunicated me and ….

I AM ALONE….

I feel like, in the last three weeks, the emotional separation has begun and forgiveness has been given a little light, and a little room to grow.

It is bizarre, this place I stand. While I am still feeling I could never be intimate with a man who spit in my face and called my mother a whore, I am missing having a mate.

…Just checking In….


Your thoughts are appreciated….


~Rachel

Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 750
Member
Offline
Member
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 750
Wow... Its nice to see you back.. Its nice to see a WAW seeing a little lite.. My hope is my W can see the same..


Honesty, sincerity, tenderness and trust. A little less time for the rest of the world, And more for the two of us. Kisses each mornin, I love yous at night, Just like it used to be.
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 877
L
Member
Offline
Member
L
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 877
I remember yours posts a long time ago; sorry for all you have been through. Do you find you are missing your H, or missing what it feels like to have a mate? I think that is the question when so much has happened...and I think that time tends to help with that. If you are missing your H, I hope things work out with you. But I will say this...even in the most heartbreaking sitchs, we learn so much. I have never felt as complete as I do now, and it is all because I actually GREW through my hurt and soul searching. But it took a long time, and coming to appreciate the people that I can truly depend on. I could not on past R's. Maybe one day...

Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 476
Member
OP Offline
Member
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 476
I was talking with an old old friend last night on the phone and telling him how when we all shared a home some 10 years ago...

how very depressed i was then....

suicidal, even, god forbid...


and he told me, "Rachel, your laughter was genuine"


and it made me think about the other things i'd clouded over throughout these years...


i have, no doubt, endured MUCH love-lazyness...


i dunno kevinlost... I may find my way back into love with my husband...

i can't tell him, because my aloneness, this time in which i learn these things, would end...


we must just have faith, no?

Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 476
Member
OP Offline
Member
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 476
lettie, i do not miss my H and haven't once since he's left.

i miss how easy things were then, and how little i "needed a vacation" then...


this is a new page in this process...



Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 4,885
Member
Offline
Member
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 4,885
Hey missy....glad you stuck your head up and gave us a shout! Hmmmmm...so what are you hoping for from life, R? New/Old goals???

Sage


Relax. Appreciate. Be calm. Laugh. Enjoy. Be secure. Be loving. Be loved. Don't personalize. Don't ASSume. Accept. Be grateful.
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 476
Member
OP Offline
Member
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 476
i wanna take karate and have extraordinary love in my life

extraordinary, being that based on friendship and trust and honesty and security and admiration... (oh, and passion...)


i don't ever want to be mistrusted again, and if I am... I want to be able to kick their butt with my cool new karate kicks hi-YA !!!


i also want a career i can excel in
and i want to write a book
and i want a vacation



my specific goal remains, however... to NOT go insane, and to pay my bills...


isn't it funny? our dreams tempered by reality???

Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 2,213
Member
Offline
Member
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 2,213
Hey My Lady Friend who is so lyrical with her words.
I have missed ya!!!!

Was my sitch ever like yours???
Try years of H being verbal and almost physical at times.

Then I finally had enough.

You know the story.

I could use a vacation also.

And the part about your friend saying your laughter was geniune???
That's an important point.
I think we do/did paint our sitches and past experinece
with hazy colors.
Forgetting the amazing fact that we survived in spite of all the crap.

This 7 month thing is rather strange, eh?

H and I were talking about D's counseling and how it is going.
H's comment about our past R.......it wasn't so bad.

I'm so sick of bringing up the past.
Course D needs to deal with it, so we are now in counseling together.
Me & my beautiful 13 yr old.
Please do I have to hear about how H cheated on me 2 in our
marriage and was emotionally absuvive??

Seeing it through her eyes is horrific.

So lady no matter what, be glad that you are taking care of this now while little Z is still young.

Wish I would have left years ago.............

Sorry to hijack your space

Do not worry about feeling lonely
it will pass

As to the family R's
don't sweat them

I totally understand.

Kim, AKA KIP

Oh yeah

Welcome Back


"Those who don't read, have no advantage over those who can't" Mark Twain
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 2,213
Member
Offline
Member
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 2,213
Check out Dulcie's thread in Surving the Big D

The Rules for Being Human

Love ya


"Those who don't read, have no advantage over those who can't" Mark Twain
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 6,447
Member
Offline
Member
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 6,447
WOW!! been wondering what you're up too...nice of you to drop us old chronies a line.

So karatee sounds cool, a book sounds cool...not going insane sounds cool as long as you leave room for slightly crazy.

Here's hoping you stay on your journey to finding your peace and of course my optimistic sappy hope that somehow someday h can be a part of that too.

LL

Page 1 of 2 1 2

Moderated by  Michele Weiner-Davis 

Link Copied to Clipboard