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Your journey to your next life begins here, now. Your (perhaps unexpected) companions, grief, anger, regret, loneliness, uncertainty, and bitterness, will stay with you as long as you need them: don't try and make them leave before they are ready.
One true friend, perhaps from outside your family circle, who you can pour your heart out to as you need to, can make all the difference in the world.
... with empathy from one who has been through it more than once ...
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«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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No idea of how much this must hurt but hard times are not lasting forever, just love your kids, enjoy your time with them and when they'll be 18 they will be able to visit you whenever they want.
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PompeyThree wrote: After 10 years of being a happy family - today I become a part-time Father.
How is it that a happy family leads to divorce? 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: How is it that a happy family leads to divorce?
Don't want to go into details - and to put ten years of details in here would take about...10 years. But trust me it can.
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No idea how difficult this must be for you
Having been through some life changing experiences myself recently the one thing that makes a big difference is talking with friends, as well as with other family members(my sister and father in my case), regularly whether by skype or meeting them .
It can help also to have professional counselling, there are charities that provide counselling at a very low cost.
Things do change and improve - wishing you all the best.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Thanks guy .. really appreciate it.
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modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I can only imagine how it is to have your family breaking apart. Or actually I can't.
But you have my empathy.
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Sorry to hear this news. Keep you chin up. It will get easier as time goes by, if you let it.
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Meh! What doesn't kill you makes you wish it had! You can survive divorce. Just see how totally normal, unbitter, and balanced I've become in the past 16 years of mind sapping, gut wrenching, miserable loneli ... oh! 
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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PompeyThree wrote: part-time Father
That must hurt 
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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I too have been through this. And I appreciate how hard this can be.
I hope that one day your children (?) will appreciate you and reach out. I still wait for such from my own children (all adult now), but I have also moved on with my life. It is enough for now that they know that you are there, when they are ready to find you.
In the meantime I am able to see one of my daughters has become a mother with a beautiful baby boy (me a grandfather, who would have thought...). I have reached out to her, so I hope that one day she will do so as well...
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I know the feeling. If you didn't have a marriage/family counselor get one; mine was invaluable to me.
Don't become the a**hole divorced dad. Spend as much time as you can with your kids. Lose yourself with them. In my case, my youngest was a teen, my oldest in her twenties, who has a daughter. In many ways, that granddaughter saved my life. Spending time with her, with her unconditional love, helped me beyond words.
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Good morning to you!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Wake up in the wrong bed, did we? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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So did I.
I was next to the wife... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: the wife....
What's the rest of the sentence. The wife of the neighbour? 
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the wife's kid sister?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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The wife of the elephant, obviously.
Pay more attention, in future.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The bed was all right - it seems I went to the wrong work...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Watch: Man demonstrates how to make deep-fried water - UPI.com[^]
WHY?!??!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Just throw some ice cubes into the deep fryer? 
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: WHY?
He's trying to get the Scots to drink it...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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