Well. It is tempting to brush it all aside and say, "Thank you. Sure, I'm fine." And by most standards I am. It is always a short trip to de-Nile (bad T-shirt joke. "I live by de Nile" over Egyption scene with the Nile River. It was an 80's thing)
It's tempting to ... but loss is loss and pain is pain and patterns are patterns ... Ultimately, we are all healing until the day we die. It is a daily decision to face forward.
Thank you for your prayers.
I totally understand what you mean. It's always there and always will be, however much we try to hide behind a mask of smiles. This post today was hopefully the first step on my path to letting it not rule the rest of my life.
One step at a time.
This is true. In time, though, more of the smiles become real and genuine out of genuine happiness. This I learned when my first marriage went all to shards.
You have made an excellent first step. Shame lives in the darkness and runs from the light. You're breaking bindings today!