Breakups & Divorce Support Group
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I ask this question because I had to the unfortunate opportunity of seeing a lot of my family members today. Besides my parents I don't see the rest of the family very often because most of them from out of town, so they don't know about the situation with my wife and I.
I damn sure don't feel like explaining it to anyone right now either, and I hate telling these damn lies about it too. You know: "We're great!" or "They had plans to do something else with her family so they couldn't be here."
I don't feel like playing charades anymore. STOP ASKING ME ABOUT MY FAMILY! THEY'RE FRICKIN FINE! REALLY DAMNIT!
And while all this is going on, I have to sit there and watch them with their happy damn families. Happy spouses and happy kids, every body's just one big happy family. All this "I love you baby" crap or "Can I get you anything baby" crap. I wish they all would just go to hell or back to Mars where they came from.
I don't mean to sound like such an asshole, but the whole thing just wore me the hell out. It drain me physically and emotionally.
I'M BURNT OUT RIGHT NOW.
I damn sure don't feel like explaining it to anyone right now either, and I hate telling these damn lies about it too. You know: "We're great!" or "They had plans to do something else with her family so they couldn't be here."
I don't feel like playing charades anymore. STOP ASKING ME ABOUT MY FAMILY! THEY'RE FRICKIN FINE! REALLY DAMNIT!
And while all this is going on, I have to sit there and watch them with their happy damn families. Happy spouses and happy kids, every body's just one big happy family. All this "I love you baby" crap or "Can I get you anything baby" crap. I wish they all would just go to hell or back to Mars where they came from.
I don't mean to sound like such an asshole, but the whole thing just wore me the hell out. It drain me physically and emotionally.
I'M BURNT OUT RIGHT NOW.
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I have been here before, a long long time ago and now I am back.Forgive me for not just saying what I want to say,even under a triple dose of antidepressants it is still raw and seeping and I am hesitant at revealing it as at least under the bandages around my heart I don,t have to look at how raw and wounded.My child was cleaved from my heart by his own actions. my child of ten,turning eleven...
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I gave my 2 week notice last Friday 13th. Now to join you fine people in a life of leisure and nothing else to do but to look out for myself....is it just me or does that sound pretty boring? My goal was to live to retire and I guess having to take early retirement because of health reasons wasn't exactly the way I had planned things. I just can't stay in that building that is reeking mildew...
Somehow, we feel "marked" or emberassed when we're going through this crap. I actually had someone that I worked with, a female, after I told her that he (husband) had left, say to me..you didn't see it coming? Like, what's wrong with you? We want to avoid questions or statements like that. We can't handle it in the beginning. As time goes by, you have time to think about your relationship and believe me, you'll have answers for those stupid questions. Evidently, they've never been through anything like this. We're all still in shock from this. We don't have answers. But, in time, we will. Everyone will figure out their own reasoning behind what we're going through.
My own situation, a little voice kept saying to me, "he tells so many lies to alot of people and eventually, he's going to back himself into a corner". Well, right now, there are alot of people he is "avoiding". Is that anyway to live?
Back to your dilema.....keep this to yourself, as far as your family is concerned, until you feel comfortable enough to answer all those stupid questions or listen to those stupid comments. Even though, family could be helpful right now, NOT all family.
When my stbx moved out, he moved about an hour from here. So I was the one left to explain to people from church, mutual friends I'd run into at the supermarket, etc. Ususally, I would have the kids with me, so I wouldn't have to go into details in the produce aisle. But eventually, word gets around.
I read that some people use their annual holiday greeting card to include a note about what is going on. I thought this would be a good idea - until I tried to write a note about it without getting depressed. How about, "Merry Christmas! By the way, I'm getting divorced. Luckily, my husband found his true love (it wasn't me!) through the internet..." I still have all my cards on the dresser, waiting for me to write a note I could live with.
I can certainly understand why you feel so drained. It is exhausting to keep up a false front. Good luck! ~P