This past Tuesday marked my two year Dumpiversary, the day my ex announced to me that he was leaving me after being together for over 22 years. I’m not going to rehash the events or emotions that led up to that day, or even really the events or emotions that immediately followed it.
But, what I will say to the universe is this: Thank you. Thank you for ridding me of that most unhappy and unhealthy excuse of a human being, for giving me the chance of a life lived in pursuit of my own happiness and not someone else’s, for independence, for true joy, for the chance to really see and experience my own strength.
I were to come across the person I was on November 23, 2009, heaving and crying on my friend E’s sofa, I would say this:
This is good. You don’t feel it right now but you are free. It’s going to be tough but you are off the crazy carousel, at last. And speaking of crazy, you were never depressed- you were married to an asshole. It’s going to get better. It’s already better.
And yes, it’s so, so much better.
So happy to read this post.
ditto!