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sick and tired of being sick and tired 

I went to bed super late last night (actually this morning) around 330am. I woke up around 9 and decided i didnt want to get up yet and ended up falling asleep again. I started dreaming that i was talking to my STBXW at a restaurant, she was just starting the "i want to come back" speech. then she got up to go meet someone or something and i got very upset (in my dream). I snapped awake and was talking to myself saying "it wont happen, jeff, its not going to happen". then i noticed i had incredibly strong stomach cramps, ran to the bathroom and got sick. this hasnt happened since she first left. i havent had a dream involving her either. i really REALLY dont want to make this a habit again as im hoping its due to nerves or something.

 

a few weeks ago i called her to see how she was doing. i dunno why but i did. i remember her saying she hasnt done much of anything regarding her "plan" since she has moved out. see, the idea was that she was going to move into a minimum lease apartment, go to counseling and work on her self for awhile to see if we could move on. since doing this she has done nothing but move back in with her parents, work, and party. shes now bragging that she is the happiest shes ever been in life and doesnt need counseling. regarding the housing situation who knows if that will ever change.

 

since she left ive managed to find a very good paying job (almost the same as she makes), i bought another car, a motor cycle and started going to counseling. in the same conversation i said something to the effect that she isnt doing anything, is nothing and im doing so much better than her and without her. im not going to lie, it was a lame thing to say. but i FELT so much better. later on talking to her a week or so later she said her feelings were hurt incredibly and she cried about it for awhile after i said that. at the time i felt bad for making her cry, but now that i think about it, i dont really.

 

my own special torture to myself is to go on mutual friends Facebook accounts and look up her page to see if she posts up anything new. recently there were new pics posted of her out on the town, dancing on a bar in a mini skirt..... beautiful, my wife has turned into a attention whore. ive heard she started smoking again also. i wanna call and tell her "its 2009, guys dont think its attractive when women smoke". in the pictures she just looks.....bad. shes fake tanning again, which looks fine on some, but she has done it so much over the years that her skin is beginning to show it, add to that all the alcohol and now smoking again.....a girl friend of mine called to tell me she saw the same pics and mentioned that she looked old and "rode hard and put away wet". it all just adds to the fact that i wish she would just go away and i didnt have to deal with her. if this is how she deals with all this, i do NOT want her back, much less talk to her.

 

add to that the car we have financed together. i have a set of keys for it and want to go sniff around to make sure shes not smoking in it. because if she doesnt get it financed on her own within the next week, we need to put it up for sale. no one wants a car thats been smoked in these days. fun times are when i find more crap of hers in the house. it makes me want to go right to her work (which is a mile away) and dump the stuff in her/our car. i found a ring that she had engraved our names into the other day, i knew she was at a friends house, so i drove over and left the ring on the shifter. havent heard about that one yet surprisingly. this time around its a bunch of shot glasses from random places weve traveled to and some earrings. i dunno why, i just beat myself up about this crap.

 

i dunno. im just really tired of feeling this way. yet i have another 90 days till court. i have a car we both signed the loan for together to deal with. and whatever other BS goes with that. i wish there was a switch to flip so i could just disconnect and move on.

by Smonky  62 Posts 

Posted on 7/14/2009 3:18 AM
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It still sounds like she's over you but you're not over her.  Not to say that's not normal for you to have emotions but think about the contradictions here.
 
You wrote "...I wish she would go away and I wouldn't have to deal with her."  But you're the one contacting her, you're the one going on Facebook trying to see what she's up to, driving by friend's houses of where she's at to drop something off.

You're saying how raggedy she looks, she's smoking, etc. But you are keeping her active in your life.  You are bringing this pain on yourself because you're driving yourself nuts trying to play eyespy on her every move.

The biggest thing you guys have in this divorce is a car.  Do you know how fortunate you are?  Most of us with complicated divorces would give the car away if that's all that was involved, so in that aspect, please be thankful.  It could be a lot worse, trust me.

So no matter what derogatory things you are saying about your stbx, you obviously aren't over her.  You need to disconnect and do for you.  Not to prove anything to her (I got more than you, etc.).  Do things to impress yourself, not her.  From the sounds of it, she's not going to care anyway.

Take care of yourself and I hope that soon this pain in your heart will be overcome with joy.
by lifeinpurgatory   1830 Posts
Posted on 7/14/2009 1:39 PM
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well life is a bitch any way so what we do is drive on until we find a place to get a Ice cold bud and then we kick back have a smoke( what ever is your preferance)and  think about where we have been. You will findly see everything you worried about on that past road is not worth worrying about any more if it ever was in the first place.

Ps check you fuel gauge ;)
by Gomezz   732 Posts
Posted on 7/14/2009 11:02 AM
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It will end when you decide to end it.  You can only be miserable untill you decide to change it.

You are new here I gather from the amount of posts that you have, but here is the deal.

Husband and I separated. The mental abuse was escalating & I thought maybe a separation would help us. Go to counseling. I did go but he did not. I was depressed for months. It would take all my energy to get out of bed. I was drinking every night and definetly not present in my kids life. Dinner, try fast food. Not good. When I forgot it was cereal, eggs or oatmeal.

Something finally snapped. I could not go on living this way. I like you got, "sick and tired of being sick and tired."

I joined a gym, quit the drinking, bought new clothes and started being present in my kids life's. 

Where am I now? Happy, I have a wonderful man in my life. I continue to exercise daily if not every other day. Drinking, well, the occasional glass of wine is not bad but it has now been replaced with chai tea :-)

It is in your hands and only your hands.  Find yourself again, get into therapy or whatever you need to help you along. This is a great site. Continue posting.

Abrazos.
by vlady   2123 Posts
Posted on 7/14/2009 10:18 AM
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Wouldn't it be great if there was a disconnect switch.  We would all pay great money for it.  I wish I could just flip the switch and be done with it also.  Isn't it interesting that they move out to get counseling and become a better person, their plans change, but we follow through, get the counseling, get our acts together and we are so much better for it?  My stbxh said the same thing.  I want to move out, TEMPORARILY, get counseling, become a better man so I can be a better husband and dad.  Of course, we had NO CLUE about the affair.  But he has put on weight, looks MUCH older and has had health issues ever since he moved out in January.  I've lost 40 pounds, gone down 2 sizes, got my financial situation sorted out, have a wonderful counselor and am getting healthier, mentally and physically, every day.  My counselor has said to me on several occasions, "Sometimes rejection is God's way of protection."  There's alot of truth to that.

Take it one day at a time smonky.  It's extremely difficult.  Things may get worse before they get better.  Right now my stbx is changing what he offered financially.  I think he realizes he is losing control and is trying to take the upper hand.  He doesn't realize that no matter what he does or tries to do I will be just fine.
by flutterby   829 Posts
Posted on 7/14/2009 10:10 AM
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