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I Have Been Served....Woooo Hoooooooo

I have been away doing schoolwork and working and of course rearing my two boys. You all can only imagine how much time and work goes. I am not able to get back here and spend the time reading everyone's posts. I have thoroughly missed being here. Where does the time go. I have a little over a year and I'll finally earn my Bachelors degree. I have earned my Associates so I am certainly on my way. I see many of us have gotten divorced, well on their way too, and even remarried. It is so encouraging to read and see how many of us have grown and go on down the road with it. I have been in limbo for almost five years and I am finally able to say I am getting divorced!!!

Yes you read it right the big day is March 17, 2012 and I shall be a single man again. So take your number and fall in line :D

Seriously I thought I'd be jumping up and down and hollering with jubilation but for some reason I am not. I am totally relieved that it is coming to a close but I am not in a partying mood. I thought it would be a lot different than this but I must say with all that has gone on and all that is going on that I am totally relieved and I have a quiet peacefulness within myself that I have not experienced in quite some time that is for sure.

Life is good and it feels good too.

by gregory1969 2000 Posts

Posted on 2/21/2012 6:02 AM

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Great news, Greg, and yes it's bittersweet. But you have the rest of your days now with the knowledge of her being a memory and that you are the master of the way the rest of your life plays out. It's official and that means something! God bless and good luck! I have around 9 months left before it's final on my end and it means more to me psychologically, I find it hard to be able to invest when I know I'm still "married". You have a good heart and have grown from the earlier bitterness to be wiser and more thoughtful than you know.

by RDC 92 Posts
Posted on 2/29/2012 10:29 PM

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It made me sad too. So did the divorce itself. A friend of mine actually planned a party for me that day. I couldn't do it at all.

You thought it would be forever. Some of it was good or you would not have stayed so long. Of course it hurts.

It's a year later and everything looks so much better. I don't think I would be in this better place if I hadn't taken the time I needed to grieve instead of just say oh well I'll move on. Take as much time as you need, but know that it will get better.

by bluebird 3242 Posts
Posted on 2/22/2012 9:06 AM

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You've got a lot on your plate, and you're handling it. Good for you! Great that you're in school - it's a challenge if you've been away for a while, but it's so worth it!

I was pretty happy about finding out my court date for a few hours - then I became really sad. Three nights before, I got anxious - am I sure that the settlement is right? What about . . . ? I tossed and turned that night, and called my attorney the next day. Yep, the settlement was as good as it's going to get. The day of court, I had a wardrobe malfunction before I got out the door - had to come up with Plan B pretty quickly, but I got to work on time. Court was pretty anticlimactic. I spent a couple of days after in kind of a haze - it reminded me of times when I knew that someone was terminally ill, and when they died, it still took the wind out of my sails.

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by NotJulieG 305 Posts
Posted on 2/21/2012 1:37 PM

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Greg,

I am happy for you...I for one know the long road of ending something we never thought of as ending...

So happy your classes are going well...I believe in you....the end still lingers after the papers are signed....but we have to believe this is the best for us!!

You life is just starting.....keep the faith...all for the better....Hugs to you today ...you sound so at ease...My best to you in your classes....wish me luck as well....new state and new job...life changed but the heart of me never left...yours too!! Take care my friend!!

by Joyful 2660 Posts
Posted on 2/21/2012 1:10 PM

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That makes sense to me. It seems natural to be relieved but it is still not a party time. Congrats though on it all moving forward!

by wtf 352 Posts
Posted on 2/21/2012 7:27 AM

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Guess I missed something- I thought you were already divorced. Ah, well.

Congrats on school! And, I know how you feel.....when it came time for my court date, I went and parked my car in the school parking lot (my school was within walking distance of the courthouse), walked to the courthouse, got my divorce then went back to the school and wrote a 10 page paper on the Kent State massacre during Viet Nam. I felt pretty much nothing by that point....

by Dactyl 4941 Posts
Posted on 2/21/2012 7:02 AM

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