Almost 5 years later, I am on the verge of getting engaged to a wonderful guy, and I hear from mutual friends that he’s still jumping from relationship to relationship, dragging his baggage from one relationship to the next, because he’s never spent enough time on his own to actually deal with his personal issues. My ex-husband is much the same, I think that in the 6 years since our divorce, he’s spent less than 2-3 months out of a relationship. He’s getting married next weekend to a girl he’s dated less than a year. He simply can’t stand being alone. For me, I look at the year I spent before I met my guy as some of the most difficult and rewarding months of my life. Yes, it hurt. Yes, there were times when I felt like I couldn’t and wouldn’t make it. But, those months of healing and beginning to work on the issues I have that caused my previous relationships to failed provided the foundation to begin again in a healthy relationship with a guy who is deserving of my love and trust. I still call that time period of aloneness my “long dark teatime of the soul.” I did a lot of therapy, writing, crying, and just being with myself. It was challenging, but had tremendous value. https://bit.ly/43feAKx https://bit.ly/4hUqTCc https://bit.ly/3LolTtm https://bit.ly/49G4Gp7 https://bit.ly/4hHIQUa https://bit.ly/47poM5G https://bit.ly/4oX1g62 https://bit.ly/43LZBb8 https://bit.ly/43PSRJd https://bit.ly/4oV98Vy https://bit.ly/3LyMnIx https://bit.ly/3X1hDCJ https://bit.ly/4or2PJx https://bit.ly/3WH6gzC https://bit.ly/3WEh8yf https://bit.ly/3WGVVDS https://bit.ly/43daPFt https://bit.ly/3LiJnA6 https://bit.ly/4opb0pw https://bit.ly/3LqdINe https://bit.ly/4oX1jPg https://bit.ly/43V1L8i