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All New Road to Recovery for the Recently Ditched No. 9

999 replies

WarriorQueen · 11/11/2010 13:50

Dearly Be-Chucked, we are gathered here today because, for whatever reason, our man has dumped us!

Whether you are a new dumpling or a vet, feel free to join us in our quest for serenity

Angry Sad Shock Hmm Blush

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Citydoll · 12/11/2010 08:23

Hi, Karmann - what a really positive suggestion regarding the day 1 of my life for ME idea. well, guys, today is DAY 1 OF MY LIFE FOR ME and I am going out tonight to celebrate for me! Hope you manage to sort out the health issues and please look after yourself.

Hi, teaandcakeplease I work in London so Kensington would not be a big deal to get to. Are there websites for these types of workshops or is there a link you could send me? Thanks.

In terms of weight etc., I have about 4 stones spare and going if anyone is interested?

Hugs to all.

WarriorQueen · 12/11/2010 08:24

hi citydoll - i have put a link in my post to their website.

how are you feeling today LC?

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Teaandcakeplease · 12/11/2010 08:37

This is the one I am doing You just click on the underlined part and it takes you to the website.

But do take a look at WQ link which is underlined in her message at 8.15am today.

littlecritter · 12/11/2010 10:25

I'm here. I'm lurking. I'm reading all the poats. Then reading them again and again. But I'm so shellshocked I can't absorb things properly. My short term memory has gone awol, don't even know what day it is without looking. Can't concentrate on anything properly.

But I'm going to get stronger soon. Thinking about taking my engagement ring down to the jewellery quarter today (I live in Brum) and using the proceeds to treat myself to something in Selfridges Smile.

I'm so sorry I'm not doing anything for anyone else on this thread. This is so incredibly hard for me but I know I'll be ok. So thankful that you are all there for me. x

littlecritter · 12/11/2010 10:26

poats = posts obviously

Karmann · 12/11/2010 10:30

Hi Tea. COPD is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and in my case is caused by genetic emphysema.

WQ - I like your idea of an emotional step and a practical step. I have managed to get up at a reasonable hour today so have time to get things done before I go to work. Today I am going to clear the patio. My gazebo died in the winds last night and my pots blew over so it looks like a hurricane swept through my garden.

For an emotional step I am going to close my mind to emotions for the day - that should do the trick!

Citydoll - glad you liked my idea and I'll have 1 of your spare stones please!

Urban - lovely to talk to you last night. Made such a difference to me.

Karmann · 12/11/2010 10:40

LC I'm so sorry you're feeling so bad. Don't worry about 'not doing anything for anyone else', it's a support thread and we will all have ups and downs along the way. You will get stronger and you will be ok. It will take time.

It might be an idea to not go over and over the posts whilst you have such an overload in your mind. Maybe try writing it down to free your mind of the constant churning.

Hope your day gets better. x

WhenwillIfeelnormal · 12/11/2010 11:11

LC I don't know if you are still lurking, but I am not surprised you are feeling like this. You are in a new shock phase and don't underestimate the effect of that. In fact, given your profession, it might be worth talking to someone at work about the effect of shock, physiologically and emotionally.

You are having to face up to something you have always preferred not to believe. Your denial was always understandable, because however much an objective stranger could see the truth, you were being told by a RL person, whom you loved, that you had got it all wrong.

You might recall some of my interventions in the post-discovery phase, because I suspected you were being gaslighted in the extreme. What I have found helpful to people who are victims of this, is to get them to focus on incontrovertible evidence. Hence, I suggested you asked for the last 2 years' phone bills. When he refused that request, I was even more convinced that you were being gaslighted and as an objective observer, wanted you to see that your suspicions and doubts were perfectly valid.

As an onlooker, once I suspect (and then get evidence of) gaslighting, my concern moves away from advising about relationship repair and focuses entirely on the mental health of the person whose mind is being messed with.

Hence, my concern for you all these months has been to protect your mental health. It is why I intervened, when ever I felt the gaslighting was getting worse, because what always helps in that situation is another person giving a reality check and reinforcing the truth, as opposed to the lies you so wanted to believe.

So here you are, with a version of events that more accurately "fits" the true story of your life for the past 2 years. At last some things make sense.

But you are in too much shock just yet to do that timeline, to face up to more pain; that he was doing this when you were nursing your Dad. At the moment, that's too awful to contemplate.

But eventually, you will need to do that. You should not make a decision until you have all the bits of the jigsaw and can construct the truth of the last few years.

Having him there while you are doing this is the worst idea imaginable. You need peace and order, to recover from the shock waves and build up strength again to face those demons and the need to timeline more accurately.

In your shoes, I would get some acute help for the shock and then withdraw completely from him, while you are deciding. If you need more jigsaw pieces from him, get them, but make no comment about each revelation.

His physical presence, especially if he is behaving like a victim himself, will compromise your decision-making process enormously, as will the understandable competitive feelings towards the OW. These latter feelings are red herrings actually, that get in the way of a proper decision, based on all the facts.

Peace, order, calmness and for someone who has been gaslighted, a chance to reconstruct the real story of your life in recent years, is what's needed, but only after you have recovered from the acute shock.

Thinking of you (and thanks armbow Wink) and offering continued support, if you need it. (watery smile)

littlecritter · 12/11/2010 11:34

He's really bad for me, isn't he?
No need to answer.

WarriorQueen · 12/11/2010 12:17

hi lc - thinking of you today ..... look after yourself and your younger ds first and foremost during this phase.

this is just a phase you know (albeit a horrid one), you will get past it and you will get stronger.

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Teaandcakeplease · 12/11/2010 14:30

Yes LC Sad WWIFN is so wise. ((hugs)) lovely.

soverign21 · 12/11/2010 14:59

AH HA have found you!!! lol

did not realise all this time that we had hit 1000 posts, just thought everyone was quiet lol

have been so tired lately (not sleeping well) and pre occupied that i just didnt notice

am off to have a read brb

Teaandcakeplease · 12/11/2010 15:15

Oh Sov that's what I was worried about with a lot of the new people on here, so I messaged them but thought you'd be ok. Oops Blush

soverign21 · 12/11/2010 15:56

LOL thats ok Tea, it's just beacause i've been so tired i simply didnt think to look, usually i'm on the ball

LC, lots of great advice there for you, dont worry about not helping anyone were all here for each other and you need us right now ((HUGS))

WQ, you are sounding great and if thats got something to do with male attention then brilliant but it may also have something to do with your realisation about XH and that you dont want him back and that may also be why your getting the male attention, because your putting out a stronger vibe IYSWIM

Karmann, hope your ok and take it easy

Citydoll, hope your doing ok and yes 1st day of your new life sounds great, try and find a positive in everything it helps also drw might be a help too

Patience, glad your settling in well and hope you can sort that window, re farmer, i hope you find one with acres of land for you :o also re weekend meet up, i wouldnt be able to do that unfortunately, no one to have DC, infat 5 minutes to myself eludes me most of the time Confused

Rom, have a good time in boston and relax and enjoy yourself

Tea, hope you and yours are doing ok

Maybee, have read up on your story a little, my X was/is a heavy cannabis user and fortunately was too lazy to have an affair, unfortunately it made him depressed and lazy and unhelpful at home and with DC(we have 4) our 7yrold seems to be dealing with it fine hoefully yours will too it's my 3 yrold i seem to have the most trouble with, hope your ok

Partytime, ?? have i missed you joining us Confused if i have i'm sorry and welcome

Starting, very lucky girl, i just need the good sex doesnt have to be a gent :o

Getting, hope your ok

Hugs to all and hope you all have a great weekend

partytime · 12/11/2010 16:09

sov - not new, just not posted for a while

Anyway, here's an update. My new bf of 5 months had just dumped me today, tells me he loves me but cannot stand the fact that when I sell marital home I am considering moving 100 miles away back to my home town.

He feels he cannot get more involved with me with this hanging over us. I have made my intentions clear right from day one with him, yet he let things run till now.

So I am here, tearful again, over another man who's let me down. I have thought that maybe I got involved with him too quickly, and on other threads many have suggested this. But it felt right and I was happy.

I am now considering my feelings for him, trying to work it out, and decide what I want more.

When will life improve and be sorted? It's all such a mess.

soverign21 · 12/11/2010 16:10

well as i said im not sleeping well and am feeling quite down and confused ect am noticing it seems to be when i have a period i'm at my worst Confused i currently have a coil which isnt agreeing with me and i think thats causeing my mood swings, i have my appointment next week to ask to be steralised(sp) so am hoping the date wont be too far off and i can get it removed

X is confusing me, he readded me on fb a couple of weeks ago so have been watching what ive been saying but it also means i can see what he's saying

Yesterday, i got a bit upset towards the end of the visit and took myself off to have a cry, he wouldnt have know only DS1 came to find me and went and told X that i was crying, i cleaned myself up and came back in to get DC ready for bed and he left (7ish) then about 12ish i went on fb and his status said "hate's how people cant just spit it out, for fuck's sake, there's the card's, now lay em on the godamn table !!!!"
My friend thinks this is directed at me and tbh thats what i thought at first too but i have been dwelling on it all night and all day and i'm not sure, maybe it's for/about someone else, she thinks i should ask him but i'm scared unsure wether i should or not Confused i just dont know what to do, i dont know if he wants to try again and wont know unless i ask but then i'm putting my heart on the line again and i dont want to make a mistake because if im wrong he may stop seeing DC again, oh what to do, what to do

soverign21 · 12/11/2010 16:18

Hi Partytime, you may have been before my time then i started posting in August

Sorry your in this situation again, as for getting involved to quickly thats something only you know but how long is too quick?, some might say a years too quick but you just have to do what you feel is right which you did
Take some time to evaluate your feelings and what you want/need and see where to go from there, have you thought about asking him to go with you?

To answer your question life will never be sorted when it comes to men i fear, the way they make us feel will always have us in a spin

Keep posting if it helps we're here ((hugs))

startingovernow · 12/11/2010 16:26

Waves to all......

Have been reading all the posts but that's about all I've time for & so then find it hard to post & keep up.

LC, think wwifn is v v wise in her advise to you. I know you feel like your heart is being ripped out when this stuff happens but as I've said before you're a fighter & you'll come through this. I honestly thought xh was the love of my life & because I'd put up with so much crap invested so much into the relationship I found it really really hard to call it a day. When I look back now with the benefit of having given myself time to grieve the relationship etc I can now see how bad he/the relationship was for me. A relationship is meant to enhance your life not draw out your v life blood. Sending you big ((Hugs))

Karmann, so sorry to hear you're also struggling with an illness. Sending you lots of virtual positive thoughts & support.

Citydoll, hope first day of your new life has gone well Smile

Patience, am really really pleased to hear you sounding so positive. I'm loving your attitude atm, high 5, you have done fantastic to come through it all so well ((Hugs))

Sov, great to see you back, hope you're doing ok.

WQ, enjoy your pamper night.

Maybee, I actually left my xh too when my eldest was 1 due to him smoking hash! I moved out with dd but moved back in 6mts later after we went to counselling & he'd promised to change & the usual blah, blah!It took me a long time to realise that actually they don't ever really change & it just gets worse & worse each time Sad. But like you I have to be grateful as I had periods that everything was great & I got two more fab dc's out of it after I went back Smile.

Partytime, great to see you lurking & glad you're enjoying life too Grin. Why not keep us updated Wink.

Happy, hope all's well with you.

Waves to Pink, Getting, Mumfun, Rom, WQ, Tea & anyone I'm overlooking........numbers are rising so rapidly it's hard to keep up & remember everyone Confused

Have had a bit of a crap day today & feeling a tad sorry for myself. A relative died during the early hours this morn (was expected) & it's been such a struggle trying to organise childcare for funeral arrangements. It's times like this I feel so bloody alone & frustrated. Can make me so cross that xh just walked away from 3 dc's & NEVER has to consider anyone else's needs only his own. If he wasn't such a psychotic unstable fuckwit I'd load dc's into car & land them at his door Angry Sad

Teaandcakeplease · 12/11/2010 16:27

Hi partytime, so sorry that things do not seem to have worked out. You sounded so happy last time you posted. Considering you were always clear about moving from the word go, I'm little Angry on your behalf.

Sov - I think it's probably not a good idea to be friends with him on fb. But I think I've said that before. Detach detach detach.

startingovernow · 12/11/2010 16:28

Just saw my post was number 69 & it brought a smile to my face & reminded me how lucky I am to be having such a great sex life atm with a lovely man & that life isn't too bad if I just look at the bright side lol Grin Blush Grin.

Teaandcakeplease · 12/11/2010 16:29

x posted with you Starting, so sorry for your loss. Really hope you find someone to help you out with childcare etc ((hugs))

Teaandcakeplease · 12/11/2010 16:31

Starting! Shock

startingovernow · 12/11/2010 16:43

xpost with loads so sorry if my post doesn't make sense.

Partytime, am so so sorry to hear this. I know how hard it can be to put yourself back out there & get involved again so this must be v hard for you. ((Hugs))

Tea, hope you got some sleep & your dc's are ok.

Sov, I think if your x was really serious about giving it another go & it had any hope of working out then the v least he'd need to start with is an open & frank discussion & not some hard to decipher crypted message on fb Hmm. I think I'd detach if I were you.

startingovernow · 12/11/2010 16:44

Sorry Tea, am morto now Blush Blush

partytime · 12/11/2010 16:48

Thanks for the support, bf really helped make life pleasurable this last few months, after the year I've had, he was a great distraction from all the nasties a divorce etc bring.

He listened to me moan on about what an arse exh was being, made me laugh, was good company, great sex, kind, considerate, all you could want.

I am wondering if there is anything else that bothers him because if he loves me as he says then isn't it worth a try, life is about taking risks, isn't it?