Dealing with the past.

      I can't even start telling you how screwed up I am, or should I say, how much I screwed up my own life.     When I met my husband I was living with my host Mom and her two kids, they'd just been trough a divorce and I was my host Mom's rock and support. I began a sequence of mistakes when my husband and I decided to move out of her house after talking to a priest and getting the advice that it was wrong for us to be living under her roof since she wasn't even family. He made us feel aweful that we had sex before the marriage and that we def should not be having sex in her house. So in an impulse we moved out, breaking my host Mom's heart. We had a great relationship and my husband, at the time just boyfriend, was more than welcome to live there with us. She had a huge place in one of the most expensives towns in the suburbs of Chicago. I was very happy living with her and we were a big family. We really loved each other and she really expected me to live with her for at least another 4 years. It was miserable the way I left. She couldn't stop crying and neither could I. Today, I regret leaving them and I miss them so much. I email her a couple years later saying how sorry I was and how stupid I felt for listening to the priest. Today we all take better care of our lives the best way we can and that doesn not mean following the church rules. We wanted to do the right thing at the time and because of the society pressure we messed up. We don't even go to church. We owe the mistake to being young and inexperience. I wish I had someone tell me what's the right thing to do but now it's too late. I will keep them in my heart forever and maybe one day I will take another step into getting them back in my life. We live a mile away from each other but they don't even know. Shelley, Nicolas and Oliver I love you all and I miss you. I am sorry for the pain I have caused you, it was never my intention.

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Oh, I hate hearing the pain in your journal. I wish you only happiness. Writing it out is good, hope it made you feel better. hugs
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Girlie go easy on yourself, you are such a wonderful and caring person! Your not a screw up, not a failure, your a fighter so keep on fighting lady!
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Why cant you still be together? Cant you still visit and spend time together? I am so sorry, your heart must be breaking. I am sure one day soon you will see them again. Luv and hugs
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I\'m so sorry you have to live with this pain. I try to remember, we all did what we thought was the best thing at the time. I wish you some way to make peace with this episode in your past.
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Oh hun this soubnds like it is weighing heavily on your heart. I too, sometimes, take this trip down the road from my past. Just wish it didn\'t keep coming back. AA and my Tdoc have helped me try to remember, it\'s all of my past that makes me the person I am today. The same holds true for you. Please remember that. And there is always a lesson to be learned if we look for it.
Lotsa ((hugs)) for you, Shellie