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  • Still Slogging Along

    It is almost the end of October already. I can’t say that I will be sorry to leave this year behind us soon, but I can’t say that just changing the year on the calendar will make a difference. What a year it has been! Cancer diagnosis. Cruise! Cancer surgery. Car accident. Daughter and co.

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  • Trauma Response

    It’s been four months since the accident. Some things are better, some are the same, and time still marches on. The truck was totaled. Well, there was $18,000 worth of damage done to it, enough that the insurance said she was toast. Bye, Denver. You were an excellent truck, and my husband loved you dearly.

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  • Husband #2, What I Saw

    We arrived in my hometown (no, I’m not going to specify just in case someone I actually know reads this). I was so happy to see my kids, and my folks. Everyone was happy to see me. ER not so much. My parents thought that we were moving too fast. To be honest, we were.

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  • Interlude between one and two

    I started talking to guys in the PNW. I knew as soon as I could pack up the kids and get the Hell out of OK, I was going to. No reason not to. The ex hadn’t bothered to see the kids but a handful of times in months, despite having to basically pass our

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  • Not exactly a ‘good’ girl

    Ok, folks, story time. So, to be perfectly honest…. After we had been separated for a few months, well in all but name for 7, and I found out that he had taken ‘her and her kids’ 2000 miles home to meet the family, I got mad. I decided I wanted to have some fun,

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  • My ex-mother in law

    July…. 2012 or 2013 My ex mother in-law is currently dying. She has been sick for a while, but has taken a turn for a the worse lately.  My daughter stayed with her Auntie for two weeks helping to take care of her grandmother. She did very well holding it together despite that side of the family

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  • Husband #1

    January 2012 Husband #1 Steven B. Husband number 1. Biologic father of 2 of my kids. Musician. Idiot extraordinaire. We married young, I was 20 and he was 19. We were married for almost exactly 13 years. Through good times, bad times and worse times. Five affairs, that I know of ending with the final

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  • Bur first I give you numbers 0ne thru 10 Working it all out. I jump around a lot here. But then again it is my world and I can do what I want. So there. Too. Also. As a therapist I help people work through their problem, but I haven’t been able to work through my

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  • October 2011

    Archive for October, 2011 What do you do when…. What do you do when you start dreaming about having sex with your ex? What if the dream doesn’t focus on one ex, but moves through all of them? What if you then wake up so turned on and aroused that you really feel the need to wake

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