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Separation - Karl

My wife and I are presently separated could tell me the stages of feelings I will go through. I still love her very much.

From: Bernd

Run, don't walk, to your nearest bookstore and/or library and pick up some books on dealing with seperation or divorce (the stages are pretty similar in each). In a nutsahell, despondency, anger, confusing, despair, panic, numbness, and all sorts of other "crazy" feelings. They are all NORMAL. Just remember, feelings aren't choices, and just because you feel a certain way at a certain time doesn't mean you have to DO anything about that feeling. Your emotions are natural reactions to something that opens up a whole bunch of trapdoors inside you, and if you let yourself FEEL them, and search for answers to what they are trying to tell you about yourself, they can help you tremendously in healing from the seperation, and coming out of it with more inner peace, and greater chances of having a BETTER relationship if you reunite, or in your next relationship with someone else.

It helped me a lot too, to remind myself "and this too shall pass". Hang in there guy. You WILL get thru it. And the sun will shine again.


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