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[quote=Anonymous]I can sympathize with your situation. I wasn't in an abusive relationship, but I was in a completely unbalanced one where my effort was more than double (maybe even triple) that of my spouse. Each time I was ready to pack my bags, I got some heart wrenching plea or promise to change (or both) that made me give it another shot. For years, I watched opportunity go by to take my life in a new direction and to jump on a more promising path all because I made the commitment to give it my all. And in the end, I watched it all disintegrate into nothing but bitterness, regret, and an indescribable emotional pain as I learned that I was being cheated on and that my spouse was leaving me and the life I'd struggled to build with a lifetime of sacrifices for someone else.

I live alone as a single parent and I look around and see so many things that could have been, so many things that should have been, and so many things with may never be. It's hard to make peace with it. It's hard to just accept that you're in the divorced category with all those other people when you worked so hard to avoid it.

I can't tell you how to make it through this, but you are not alone. It's been a few years and I still feel it, but not as bad as I did when it first happened. That alone gives me hope. Tomorrow will not be as bad as today, and next year won't be as hard as right now. If that is true, then it is totally possible that I'll look back ten years from now and hate myself for wasting away in despair when I could've gotten back out there and tried again. So for that reason alone, I never truly give into those feelings of despair. Keep climbing. This hole we're in isn't as deep as it seems. [/quote]

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