I think I'm in shock. Has this really just happened?

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I've had a horrible year. A horrible horrible year. I escaped a violent relationship, was made homeless with a baby, tried to commit suicide and lost a family member on Xmas day.
Tonight my friends decided to club together and take me out for a night in a town we used to go to befire we all had children. My best friends his bad very kindly has taken my DD overnight. Please bare with me I'm rambling but I'm in shock.
I had a few drinks at a new bar and we decided to go to an old bar where I used to work. I was standing there when my friend who is the bar man places a drink in front of me. A gin and lemonade with a dash of grenadine. There is only one person in the world who knows I used to drink that and I just go numb. My friends says it's from that gentlemen across the bar and sure enough there stands my estranged husband who I haven't seen in 5 years.
He was shot a year after we got married and suffered terrible PTSD and it broke down our marriage. He left to go and sort himself out and I decided to try and move on. I never stopped thinking about him, never stopped loving him and now he's here, asleep next to me. I just can't believe this is happening and genuinely think I'm going to wake up in the morning and it was all a dream. I don't even know why I'm posting here I just needed to speak to somebody or someone to tell me that this is real!

Ahhh :) This is really sweet! Words of caution all over the place, Is - a lot of extremely turbulent water has gone under many bridges in the past 5 years ... apologies to everyone suffering shitty floods atm ... and it simply cannot be 'pick up from where you were before'.

There's a ton of talking and most likely, counselling, before you decide whether it's going anywhere.

Not bad to be starting yet another adventure with a bunch of excellent mates, lunch, a gin and a shag though!

Can't you just cuddle up to him and have a right good sniff Fidel?

Dh is used to being sniffed a lot.

'Tis the lifeblood stuff of romantic fiction that always ends well, but that's only because we don't get to read about the real life trials and tribulations of coupledom.

Enjoy the reunion, OP, but don't pin your hopes on the events of this one night being your equivalent of a happy ending.

Just sniffed my husband and I still don't know what he smell like so it's unlikely is be able to sniff him out after five years. Maybe I just have a scent free husband. Jealous of all of you out there who have sniffable partners.

Of all the gin joints........ lovely.

I could add it to the list of things to do at bedtime, like locking up and moisturising gloves, I suppose RJ.

Maybe we got low-allergy models Durham.

It sounds tremendously romantic OP (and yes, very identifying to anyone who knows you) and your year sounds absolutely horrendous.
I'd have to urge caution though especially as you're so very recently bereaved.

Take care.

But why was he asleep by 8.30 OP, did you wear him out?

PTSD is truly awful. It breaks a lot of relationships and often breaks the men themselves. Hope he is in a better place and it would seem like he came back for a reason.

I would only smell farts if I gave DH a good sniff right now as he just let off

However, when he is wind free and relaxed he smells just like.... him

When I was 14, I remember being given a talk by the Catholic Marriage Advisory people, at a school retreat, that after sex the man falls asleep so I believe you op!

What's a cocktail lounge? Other than something out of a Humphrey Bogart film.

Head and shoulders and gin.

utter desperation.

Night out, lunch, cocktail lounge, then the s e x, smelling him and in bed before nine pm. Get in there girlie!!!!

Place marking for the rest of the story.

Like from that film, An Orifice And A Genital.

I really don't want to sniff my DH tonight, he's out on a Christmas do and too much beer but if I have to I will

Isthis Does he mind you MNing next to him in bed after not seeing you for years?!

Shamelessly place marking to see where this all goes ...

My husband smells like a tent that's just been brought out of hibernation.

Has he awoken for a piss a Horlicks yet?

Have you had a nice chat with him? It all sounds nice but you have a dd! With someone else! Presumably he knows that though, if your friends had a hand in setting it all up. And a bereavement.

No need to rush things. But you went home with him! 5 years is nothing though, if you still love him. PTSD does awful things and takes years to recover from, if the person ever does.

Do people really do this in real life? Stayed married to someone they haven't had contact with in 5 years, don't attempt divorce, even when with new partner and having a baby? Isn't the long lost husband automatically put on birth certificate and OP would need DNA samples to prove he wasn't the father?

Like from that film, An Orifice And A Genital.