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<blockquote data-quote="Mikey" data-source="post: 67789" data-attributes="member: 3579"><p>Katmom/everywoman, re: <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It is amazing what you can learn to not see when you stop looking. </div></div></p><p></p><p>If only it were that easy for me. Being a male who's last name ends in a vowel, it's hard for me to be deatached. I've tried and tried, but I can't bring myself to simply detach. Instead, I shift my emotions back and forth; right now, I'm cycling through the "put him on the street if he hates it so much at home" side of the pendulum swing.</p><p></p><p>As long as he lives here, I don't think I can ever truly detach. I'll either be too optomistic or too angry. I'll either go over the top trying to keep him out of harms way, or I'll be fighting with wife over whether or not to call the police. But I don't think I'll ever be able to find peace the way you describe it.</p><p></p><p>Don't get me wrong - I'm not disparaging your suggestion. God knows that I've come full circle with you good people over the last six months, and now am willing to consider doing things that would have horrified me earlier. I don't judge, but I do know myself. And try as I might, that might be one goal I'll never be able to attain.</p><p></p><p>Thanks so much for your kind reply, though. I really appreciate both your suggestion, and the experience behind it.</p><p></p><p>Mikey</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mikey, post: 67789, member: 3579"] Katmom/everywoman, re: <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It is amazing what you can learn to not see when you stop looking. </div></div> If only it were that easy for me. Being a male who's last name ends in a vowel, it's hard for me to be deatached. I've tried and tried, but I can't bring myself to simply detach. Instead, I shift my emotions back and forth; right now, I'm cycling through the "put him on the street if he hates it so much at home" side of the pendulum swing. As long as he lives here, I don't think I can ever truly detach. I'll either be too optomistic or too angry. I'll either go over the top trying to keep him out of harms way, or I'll be fighting with wife over whether or not to call the police. But I don't think I'll ever be able to find peace the way you describe it. Don't get me wrong - I'm not disparaging your suggestion. God knows that I've come full circle with you good people over the last six months, and now am willing to consider doing things that would have horrified me earlier. I don't judge, but I do know myself. And try as I might, that might be one goal I'll never be able to attain. Thanks so much for your kind reply, though. I really appreciate both your suggestion, and the experience behind it. Mikey [/QUOTE]
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