Oh man, that's crazy, you got injured? To the point that you can't continue? Sorry man, I know you were excited about your new path. I'm sure your wife will adjust. Maybe she's also a little upset at the situation? I don't know her so I wouldn't know. I'd feel hurt by that too.
I'm doing alright. The stress is pretty high at the moment, my girlfriend is leaving town for a month in a couple of days and I can't drive right now. So I'm feeling nervous and apprehensive about that. In a week I've got my hopefully final divorce court appearance and I'm really nervous about that, the uncertainty has been killing me for months. Will I get to keep my house? That's my main question. Though I think it's most likely I will, it would really devastate my life if I don't. And I fear to experience that level of anger and resentment it would cause because my anger and resentment are already the worst I've ever felt in my life and it's poisonous. And my girl isn't going to be here to confide in regardless, she's leaving before that.
Last night she got kind of upset at me, which just means she expressed exasperation in a rational and calm way, it was related to me accidentally getting curcumin stains on her freshly cleaned white sheepskin blanket. That shit stains so bad, it may never come all the way out. She didn't do anything even remotely inappropriate, I mean honestly she was still being sweet it was just obvious she was upset. And I had been thinking of my ex and I just found myself freezing up, I knew she wasn't going to act like my ex but with her it would have caused a horrible, hours long fight that ended in tears with lots of screaming and calling me worthless, a piece of shit, etc, which would only end when I agreed with her about what she was telling me I was. I found myself being mentally and physically affected like I was unable to get over the instinctual fear I felt at that response, even though intellectually I knew that would never happen with my girl, that she would never treat me that way. She could tell how I was feeling and she was asking me if I was scared of her because I seemed scared, and that it's okay. I couldn't even say anything (literally), I completely froze up, for like 10 minutes. Finally I managed to tell her how I felt traumatized right now and it's not her fault, and she understood, knowing what she does about my past, and told me she's not mad at me, just frustrated, and gave me a hug, and I started to come out of it. It made me feel so weird, I thought I was past that but I guess not. I find myself thinking about what I went through in my marriage like 10 times a day and it makes me feel angry and/or anxious every single time, it's so exhausting. She probably doesn't mean to be dragging me through this but the longer this shitty fucking divorce goes on, the worse the dredging up of old, painful emotions is. Anything I have to give her is going to piss me off, because she abused me greatly, I had fucking stockholm syndrome with her for years, it was sick. I was terrified of her. But some money is fine, whatever. But she better not get my house, that would be such a tremendous miscarriage of justice. But I'm nervous because there are things she can say about me that will reflect poorly on me. And I can say things back to her but what proof do I have? I don't know if she has proof. The uncertainty is driving me insane.