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Last Updated: 2/27/2007

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Gender: Male
Status: Divorced
Age: 42
Sign: Leo

City: Fayetteville
State: North Carolina
Country: US
Signup Date: 8/25/2005

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Thursday, February 15, 2007 1:56 PM

Current mood:  uncomfortable
Category: Life
So now things are progressing in weird ways. My emotions are just rocking from one feeling to another. I feel relief, loss, pride, self disgust, love, anger, and peace. But what is ripping on me right now is the moments the loss feeling comes up. It is overwhelming. I burst in to tears this morning while she was getting ready for work. I mean the only thing I can try to compare this to was marriage destruction number 1. I had a lot of waves of emotion then. But I guess I was more immature, or perhaps cocky or something odd that let me not burn so deeply. Well that whole thing was an unintentional conquest for me. To leave for someone else. My pain was more for the ways I was wronging Lynda than for just a sense of loss. The loss was there. And I did have one night where I got hit with bad. I mean it remember it like it was yesterday though it is more than 10 years now. I got smacked with guilt and loss and pain. I went outside, it was a few days before Christmas. In Illinois. Tons of snow. I sat in my car. And bawled. And I was so drained I actually slept out there for a few hours.

This is just a sense of loss. As sense of being wronged. As sense of doing wrong. I have been overwhelmed by karmic lessons throughout this relationship. Feeling I wrong my first wife. Feeling fake to my current wife. Feeling unable to connect. Feeling punished. I feel my pancreatitis was a result of being such an emo freak. And having such guilt and karma hit me that I made myself terribly sick. I have had escapism as a major issue for these 10 years. Like, oh man, I am guilty, I am wrong, I am convincing myself that I have done the right thing and not believing it. It ached at me. I drank pretty hard when we first got together. Ceased shortly. Started back up. Ceased. Then the disease hit and the pain was so great. The opiate pain medicines were like the doctors saying its ok fella take your escape pill. And that spiraled me down into a darkness which is where I have been since.

But the loss. That hit today bad. But I guess its needed to feel. It is amazing how much physical pain I can tolerate and how this hurts far worse than being hacked into two. Worse than massive attacks of pancreatitis. I guess I put the loss off until it ate at me.

Yeah so right now I dealing with my portion of causing this to fail. My part of making wrong choices out of a sense of conquest. Lying to myself. Karma.
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Chaos

 
is it really failure or could it just be that you two are different and have grown apart?  You can't really consider this failure if you are able to come out of the marriage as friends.  Most folks can't even be in the same building after a divorce much less be friendly towards one another.  Don't consider this failure, think of it as a growing experience that the two of you are embarking on, only you are taking two different paths.

When I divorced my ex, it was with hate and loathing ~ to this day I cannot speak to either of them (one b/c of hatered and the other b/c of fear).  I could only wish that my divorces had ended differently and without drama.  Good luck my friend.  If you need to chat, email me.

 
Posted by Chaos on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 2:00 AM
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Mike

 

Well, all I can say about this is, any ending is loss. All things turn with the wheel however, and all endings are also beginnings.

I think that when a relationship ends, it is kind of like a death. It is also interesting to me how the things you are going through are consistent witht he archetypical images of the tarot.

I agree with Michelle above, it is not necessarily a failure per se but an ending. It is also the death of the status quo, and any change is scary and potentially painful. As I am a Taurean, I can tell you that the change and upheaval can be very crappy, but in order for new growth the dead branches have to be cut away.

In this case I think that the dead branches are the hopes and potential that the relationship had at the beginning, abd accepting that the crooked tree witht he half dead branches is actually going to have to be pruned in order for more individual growth to happen for both of you.

I would relate this to when I broke up with my orlando girlfriend. We were living together, but we both came to a point where we knew that the relationship was over. There was no magic left, but both of us were too nice to just call it over. That relationship ended cleanly and nicely, but even so I mourned the death of the potential. We were only together for a comparatively short time, you and DG were together for 10 years or so. Thats a long time. This is where the happily ever after line is supposed to be where I say then I met so-and-so and everything is grand, but such is not the case.

Regardless however, any relationship is NOT better than no relationship. At least for me.

-Strength and Honor

-Mike


 
Posted by Mike on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 8:45 PM
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