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Cutting ties 

I've gone through so many emotions the past few weeks. They've ranged from triumphant highs(when I've accomplished goals) to ambivalence and lately just wanting to feel indifferent. I just got off a long sometime unbearable conversation with my unhusband and I told him that I'm at the point that I am tired of waiting on God to give me peace about the whole situation. So ,I told him that we need to go ahead with the divorce and I'll sort things out later with God. I just don't want to see him walk out the door one more time after we had dinner, or feel good because he complimented my looks, or constantly ponder the magnitude of what we're losing here. I just don't want to care or feel anything anymore. I think I can make it somehow if I can just break away completely and not see him. The truth of this whole thing is that I love my husband but lines have been crossed. He is a good man, a good father, a great friend, highly intelligent but there had been to much trauma from my illness that he had to go through and it's now at the point of no return. I am very sad, but I need to fix my broken heart somehow. I am seriously contemplating telling the marriage counselor that we're not coming because I'm done. I don't want to hope nor wait for the inevitable. Today, I believe that I'm accepting that it's over. I just wish that my heart will say the same thing.
 I did tell him that I think it's best if we don't see each other at all. That we need to alternate being there for the kids activities and  no more contact except in an emergency. He responds by telling me to keep praying about my decision and he'll call me on Thursday to see if I still feel the same. I thought, of course that's not how I feel but it's what I must do and why call on Thursday?
  You see, false hope, I don't want it. I don't have room for it.    


by lostintranslation    
Posted on 5/14/2008 12:16 AM
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Tags: divorce , letting go , control , detachment ,
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I know what that's like.  I will say that I didn't get much of it when MyUnwife decided to leave.  There was no "confusion" per say.  The hard part was that we continued to live together for 6 months. Looking back, I don't think we changed our patterns much.  We still ate together, we still watched an hour of tv together.  I don't think we were ever in the bed at the same time though.  She did start coming home later too. there was less "unoccupied" time.  The time we spent together had a function.

Still, it was tough.  Trying to find the balance between the urges to hold her gently in my arms, and the ones to rip her face off.  No, for the record, I never did either.  I just oscilated in frustration.  So I know.  It's tough and it hurts and there does come a point where you just need a place where you can stand stable without worrying about any of it.

Thanks for sharing that point, I know it's tough.
by Robert-Boyd  1603 Posts
Posted on 5/14/2008 12:33 PM
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