Hi everybody, thanks for all your support when I was debating over going to a wedding that the OW might also attend.<br>The wedding was last saturday, and it was a complete success. It did a lot for my self esteem.<br>She ended up not going, and we had a wonderfull time.<br>My husband even went to the point to consideer that it could be a good idea for us to renew our vows soon. It would be great since we didn't really had a real marriage. On our wedding day I was in Portugal and he was here in Canada. ( he went there a couple of months before, to convince me to get married - I wasn't sure I wanted to leave my famly, friends and a good job, to come here, a place that I had visited before, and wasn't to excited about. Not because its not a good place, just because I was used to a different way of living and a different culture). Anyway at the time he went there, I still couldn't make my mind, and we ended up not getting married. When he got back, I kind of started thinking that maybe just being with him, would make up for living away from all the people I cared about, and anyways since my parents loved travelling and were always visiting this country or other I would see them often. So two months later I agreed, but by then he couldn't take anymore time off, so we ended up getting married by proxi. My dad was in the groom's place and instead of honeymoon I spent most of my first night playing cards with my family and my best friends - it was fun, but not exactely a replacement for the real thing - I must say we made up for that time when I got here two weeks later. But in any case renewing the vows seems like a great idea to me.<br>Also the reception all his friends gave me, made me feel great, including hearing some comments from them to him that he deserved a punch in the nose for what he did.Everybody was extremelly nice, and since I usually get along with everybody, I was accepted readily.<br>At some point while we were dancing H told me for the first time since all this started that he really loves me and that if he ever even looks to another woman for more than 5 seconds I have his permission to hit him on the head.<br>Seriously, although we have been working on our marriage for some months now, I never felt this confident before. I know that there will still be some downs to go trough, and even after all this is in a little corner of our memories we will still have to keep working and strenghtening our marriage, but this day was really important.<br>Once again thank you all for your support,<br>take care,<br>Katya

Katya,<p>I'm so glad that you went and that you had a wonderful time. Thank you for sharing your story of success with us. May it only get better from here. <p>Steph