Trying to get used to living apart from my husband while simultaneously not wanting to live apart from him is an odd, uncomfortable, different, unusual, distinct feeling of ... ambivalence. Trying to not hold on, to not resist, to accept what is as it is, and being okay with it, but then the mind reels back to him holding me, waking up with me, making me breakfast, going to sleep with me (rarely) ... and I miss that, I want that. But I do like this too. How to combine the two? I know I'm not making much sense right now, contradictions. I'm tired, stayed up again too late (watching Skruk, a great Danish series on Netflix). Still recovering from a few days of body aches, fever, sore throat. Have luxury anxieties seeping in ... birthday painting for my mom, which at this point will be late dammit. Holiday gifts. Trying to be comforting and available to my kids whose grandmother just passed away. And some feelings there myself, which I want to look at but not really. Off to work...
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Forty-Something Else
I'm in my 40s, married and recently moved to the Southwest from the East Coast. Perimenopausal with those lovely hot flashes. Did I mention I'm non-binary? Yeah, so that's fun. Living sober and loving it, even the hard days. Parent/Grandparent. Traveling artist, currently residing in Tucson, Arizona. Taking it all one day at a time. What a long strange trip this is!
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