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Originally Posted by rgcraig
OA you are soooooo right!
I've already gone through this. Four years ago I had a lovely home, beautiful backyard with a pool and hot tub, my flower garden with an arbor! I had it all. Divorce came to my life - had to sell the home and downsize.
At first this was painful because I had 24 yrs. of married life in that home, but as I started clearing it out, selling, giving away and keeping only what I needed it got easier.
My daughter and I moved into an apt. and I adjusted quickly. THEN, she went off to college in St. Louis. Just last summer I made another move to a better apt. and everything in this apt. is about ME.......I have a guest room decorated like I want it. Even in the garage both my kids have their "stuff" now and I'm not storing their memory boxes.
I'm happy.
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You know Renda, this is making me think about when I first came back home, I was the same way. I had very little and it was empowering to start all over again with only the things that I wanted.
OA was only wrong about one thing and that is that I had not had any big upsets in my life, but he was still right in a way, because it has been 10 years and things have been really smooth and good for quite a while now.
I think maybe because of having so little when I came back I have tried to hold on to more than I should have, and then when life started shifting again, I was overwhelmed.
Another thing, which needs to be a thread all on it's own probably, is that it is starting to look more and more like my daughter is going to wind up living on the other side of the world. And I am freaking out about it.
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