Oh I remember those! I loved the almond charms in the blue wrapper! Yep, they had little teeny bars of bournville too
I'm not seeing a therapist anymore hun, just a psychiatrist and that's just to monitor my meds. I was seeing someone at the time though and it was hugely helpful. Unfortunately you can only have so much therapy on the NHS and I've had years of it. They've done all they can really, it's down to me now. I was meant to be seeing her to help with my bipolar and anxiety but cos the affair happened at that time we mainly focussed on that. She was a Godsend. Now I talk them through with hubby and bizarrely it helps. I tell him all the horrible things he did and he reassures me he'll never do anything again and how sorry he is. He made me laugh this time, he said 'for god's sake please try and get your own back in these dreams, I'm a total b*****d, pull out a machine gun and blast me and 'her' to pieces!! I wish i could go back and knock some sense into myself!' It's crazy making stuff but his response made me smile. There's nothing anyone can do to make it better, it's a bit like being assaulted, you stop trusting people and get dragged down by the unfairness and betrayal of it. It's all why did it happen? How could that happen to me? What did I do wrong? How could someone who has been there for so long - my other half - do something so terrible?! But if you choose to stay you have to try and cope in any way you can. Sometimes it gets a bit odd, we just do whatever it takes to get me through each bad day. It helps that he's told me everything and in some way I can objectively see how he got in over his head and things snowballed. How he was dealing with my diagnosis, a new stressful job, turning 40, me losing my job. It was a lot of pressure and along comes little miss assistant 'just focus on yourself, do whatever makes you happy, don't worry about anyone else, it's your life, be like me - free and easy!' He'd never worked with a woman before, let alone a 29 yr old barmaid/ his assistant/ whore. it went from friends, to trying to impress her, how she flattered him etc etc. It helps that it was short lived and he woke up to himself. I don't bring it up all the time but we've got this far by him being accountable and making the effort to help me through it. He did it so now he has to be strong enough to help me make it through and he does all he can.
It's the hardest thing I've ever faced and I've faced some hellish stuff. Anyway, enough of the doom and gloom - what's done is done.
I love xmas!! I'm mostly sorted now, just cards and wrapping to buy. My son's birthday is the 23rd so it's always a busy time of year but I love, love, love it!
Caz x