Posted by Delaine - September 5, 2011 - Dating & Sex, From the Dating Trenches, Healing, Infidelity, Wisdom Gained
So this is a live, personal photo posted here today folks. That lady with the long hair and the rhinestone bra strap is no other than yours truly. I wish I could show you the face of this urban cowboy I’m passionately kissing here, oh I REALLY wish I could – But I don’t think [...]
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Posted by Delaine - May 30, 2011 - Grief/ Anger, Infidelity, Phases/ Stages, Wisdom Gained
I was thinking about ‘heart break’ this weekend. Not because I’m sad or because I’ve recently been hurt by someone. Rather, it’s cause I made the peaceful realization that I will never again hurt in this life because of a man, as deeply as I did when I discovered my ex-husband was having an affair. I’m not saying I’ve built [...]
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Posted by Delaine - March 22, 2011 - Healing, Infidelity, Surviving, Wisdom Gained
You my not see it. But it’s there… deep within him. It is beyond his admission, beyond his self-awareness. But it’s there, eating away at his soul… His self-loathing. He may seem all blissfully happy-in-love with her; look at that skip in his step. That skips says that he wants nothing more than to ‘get [...]
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Posted by Delaine - February 8, 2011 - Escaping: Books, Music, Films
I admit that when I grabbed the movie Marriages off the shelf at Blockbuster, its title alone made me apprehensive - my first thought was “another Hollywood happily ever after.” But the write-up on the back cover mentioned the words ‘divorce’ and ‘cynical comedy’ – plus, the actors were French and unknown to me (Mathilde Siegner? Jean DuJardin?). So I [...]
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Posted by Delaine - January 24, 2011 - Fears & Challenges, Healing, Longing...and Learning, Relationships, Wisdom Gained
Almost all women at some point in their lives attract a ‘bad man’; some of us marry him. And by ‘bad,’ I’m not simply referring to men who are drug lords, pimps, or wife abusers. No, “bad men” are men who don’ treat us and love us as wonderfully as we deserve. They are, as [...]
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Posted by Delaine - January 19, 2011 - Grief/ Anger, Infidelity, Surviving
“Hang tough Delaine – things are going to better. You really are better without him…” Many, many times I heard these words from girlfriends when I found out my ex was cheating. I knew they were right, that at some point things HAD to get better. But while in the throes of my grief, those words felt [...]
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