To all of you here on the Marriage Builders Discussion Forum, I want to say thank you for sharing your experiences, your pain and your weaknesses with me. Thank you also for sharing your advice and suggestions. Though I have never posted here before, I have faithfully read each and every post and reply for the last 2 months since my world fell apart. While friends and family have been very supportive during this time, it has been you, the people I do not know personally, that have kept me going when I didn’t know if I could anymore. It has been you, the people who write and respond on this board, who have let me know that I am not alone, that my thoughts and feelings during this time are normal, that it’s OK to cry and be angry at the same time; that I am normal for wanting so badly to give up on any hope of him coming back to me but my love for him will not let me do that just yet. I know that I will be OK no matter what happens and that life will be someday be good again. I just have to go through the grieving process. My story is way too long to share, but I have learned so much from all of you and just felt I needed to tell you how much you have helped me and kept me strong enough that I know I will now be able to endure what ever the future holds for me and my marriage. I will keep coming here and even though I may not post I am here and thinking and praying for all of you. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers also.

Susan

Susan
wonderful post!
I feel the same way about all of these people! Although, I write often and really long ones too!!!!!!Something like @200 in only one month <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" />
If you want to share, I'd love to hear your LONG story. You can't possibly be as long-winded as I am!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />
Blessings
tracey

Dear Trying,

I am so sorry you have to be here and are going thru this. Why not post your story and see if anyone here can help you even more. Sometimes just the process of writing it all down is a real relief. I'm so glad you have family and friends to help you, but since almost everyone here has been thru it also you might get a different perspective that will open you up to other possibilities.

Whether you post or not my thoughts are with you and I hope you see your way thru this.

Used

Share your problems Susan. I found that just getting it out helps a bit and we all need help with what we are all going through. Telling people you dont know makes a difference. Honest!!

I have been given genuine advice which does ease the pain a little.

I cried when I read your posting. Let us help you. There is alot of experience out there.

Love & hugs

Kat

Wow, trying
Your poem expresses my hope. THank you.

Susan- I'll add my thanks for you posting your poem "After awhile...." now if we can all truly feel that way and put those thoughts into action...heres a song I listen to alot-its metaphoric for me- I sure am not packing my suitcases literally.......just trying to pack up the CRAP that my WH laid on us and get to the mending part.....Rascal Flatts is the artist here:

I've dealt with my ghosts
And I've faced all my demons
Finally content with the past I regret
I found your fine strength
And your moments of weakness
For once I âm at peace with myself
I've been burning the blame
Trapped in the past for too long
I'm moving on
I've lived in this place
And I know all the faces
Each one is different
But they're always the same
They mean me no harm
But it's time that I face it
They'll never allow me to change
But I never dreamed home
Would end up where I don't belong
I'm moving on

I'm moving on
At last I can see
Life has be patiently waiting for me
And I know
There's no guarantees
But I'm not alone
There comes a time
In everyone's life
When all you can see
Are the years passing by
And I have made up my mind
That those days are gone

I sold what I could
And packed what I couldn't
Stopped to fill up
on my way out of town
I've loved like I should
But lived like I shouldn't
I had to lose everything to find out
Maybe forgiveness will find me somewhere
Down this road
I'm moving on