Am I a better person today? I will let others judge that, but I do know that my life with my children is infinitely better today than it was the last couple years of my marriage, and in all reality that is all that matters to me. As I told my ex a few months back, when she gave me a pathetic, half-hearted, back-handed apology asking me to give her a full pardon for everything that has happened.
OWN YOUR CHOICES, OWN YOUR BEHAVIORS, OWN YOUR BULLSHIT.
This place will never get any better until that is what we each do.
zig how are you doing today? Hoping your life with offspring continued to get "infinitely better."
When i first sat down eons ago as we all typed posts, i knew behind the keyboards were real people with real problems. Because of the sucky system we live under, i guessed that some if not many of us would undergo serious trials as time went by. Sadly, sure enough you and W.O.W. had to go thru one of the biggest stressers, a divorce. With both of them being bad ones. Not that there are ever good ones. Dabods accurately stated that even when not governmentally married, those who cohab for years undergo some of the same exact issues and pains when breaking up.
Myself? I *got* cancer in 1998. However, even tho both the wholistic joint in Asia and the traditional corporation U.S. hospital system thought i had it, apparently i did not as further tests months later showed none. Did it go away? Were the tests inaccurate? Unknown and as you can surmise i kinda really didn't and don't care -it was gone. But the aftermath of it was i got to know what it feels like to have cancer, even if only for two months. The cancer *came back* in 2008, but this time i did not freak out and waited a couple months. Again, whatever it was, it was not cancer.
So would like to know how you zig are doing today. W.O.W. would you mind posting if she is at least civil, semi-civil, okay tolerable as regards custody arrangements? Sorry to hear she chose to leave.