SurvivingInfidelity.com^®

I’m thankful that my boys are happy and healthy and are just magnificent humans, I’m thankful that they call me the best name I’ve ever been called in life - Mum.

While shopping, my H and I called in a record store that has band, funny, offensive, cute t-shirts, I saw a quirky one that applied to my H and we both laughed, he asked me what size I thought would look best on him and I told him, he said I’m just going to pay for this, he did and he came back happy as a lamb with his newly bagged t-shirt. I know that may sound like nothing to most but my H has never bought anything for himself without me forcing him or just buying it for him, he hated spending money on himself, not only that but he would never EVER wear anything like a quirky t-shirt, he was always consumed with what others would think.
We just went along to the next store but I felt a rush of something, I was so taken back by what I’d just experienced, 26 years and I’ve never seen him do that, just see something he liked and buy it for himself, he was at peace, happy, relaxed and I’m thankful I got front row tickets to see that, him become himself, the only word I can find to describe what I saw is beautiful.

I'm thankful for all of the wonderful, amazing friends I've met here.

(And the importance of emojis )

WOOHOO...another THANKFUL post from Bruce123 !!! I am looking forward to seeing this happening again SOON!!

Unhinged...I totally AGREE with you about the friends on here...and those who became family !! Those emojis are pretty cool as well !!

My H surprised me with a whole week OFF...and we were able to do a LOT of exploring ! When we would be overseas...people would tell us how AMAZING they thought the United States was...and I didn't really give it much thought. But I am so THANKFUL that we live in this GREAT country . My gosh...the BEAUTY that is in EVERY state...and the PEOPLE who are genuinely so NICE...it is so heartwarming!! I am like that Teapot song...short and stout . Most Cajuns are shorter than average...and with all the etouffees and gumbos and boudin and well...FOOD over here...we tend to be a little stouter than others as well!! I have a tendency to want items on the TOP of the shelf for some reason !! I have no problem asking a taller person if they can get that item for me !! I am so THANKFUL that not only are they willing to do that...they seem to be very HAPPY to do it for me as well ! So if y'all ever see a teapot with a Justin Wilson accent asking for help to get an item off of a higher shelf...DAT BE ME !!!

I am soon going to be heading off to help with our NEW Grandbaby ...so I won't be on here much after today. The Grandbabies have exploded in our family these last few years...and that means MORE TO LOVE !! I am so THANKFUL that we have been BLESSED with our family who keeps growing and growing every year . The last few years have had some devastating losses...my H and I have now lost all of our parents . For those of us who believe...I know they are in a BETTER place...and I am so THANKFUL that we had them in our life for as long as we did . That circle of life is still going on though...and I am so THANKFUL that we have memories of our lost loved ones as well as being able to make new memories with our precious little loved ones!

ENJOY this Friday EVE...and my prayer is that everyone can see something that they are THANKFUL for today . It will be an amazing lagniappe if they then write about it on here !!!

My H wrote me a beautiful note on a special day. I was not expecting it.
We are only several months out.
I am so grateful for his compassion and for him still being open to R.

Thankful on a Thursday!

Packing up to head out on a series of trips with my wife, covering both US coasts and a few states in between.

We will harass our adult kids a few times along the way and see family and friends, taking our early retirement to some spaces and places we either miss or have never seen.

It could be a significant hiatus from anything online (which may be an e-vacation as well), and it could be a while before I get be to thankful for all the helpful and kind souls here on SI.

So, thanks in advance and I hope everyone is healing more every day!

Thankful Thursday yey,

I’m thankful that I got to spend a day at the seaside and while we were there my H asked if I’d ever visit this place before, I hadn’t, then he asked if my Nannan had visited, I said I wasn’t sure, I remembered I had some old pictures of her on holiday with my father and uncle when they were small children, low and behold we discovered we were sitting meters away from where that photo was taken on the sea front a whopping 65 years ago!. We walked to the exact spot on the beach and my H and I recreated the picture. To see the pictures side by side, my Nannan, with her little children (my dad and uncle) and other family members then my husband and I, all the old buildings in the background still standing unchanged, it was quite emotional and I cried, I’ll cherish that picture forever, it really is special and I’m so thankful he took me there and recreated the picture for me.

We had a wonderful day, we ate fish and chips, saw lots of gorgeous friendly doggos and even got some freshly made doughnuts on our way back to the car, our feet were so tired and aching by the end of the day but it was worth it, we spent the 2 hour car ride home singing our favourite songs at the top of our lungs.

I’m also thankful for my wonderful SI friends, I can’t ever repay them all for what they have done for me and continue to do.

Hi there to all my "Thankful Thursday" friends and family !!

LonelyGuilty...that is so sweet...thank you for sharing . It truly is those "little things" that mean so much!!

Oldwounds...that early retirement traveling is pretty cool !! ENJOY the trip and your precious Children!!

Bruce123...it is so GOOD to "see" you on here again !! That is AMAZING that you were able to recreate a picture from one that is priceless ! These POSITIVE times will help to combat the negative times that are sure to creep up now and then. NONE of us will go through life unscathed...but it is times like what you experienced that make life truly worth living!!

What a week this has been for me . ANY time with Children and Grandchildren is a GOOD time and I am so THANKFUL that I am able to be with my Children as they are enjoying their Children !

I sure MISS my H though. But it makes getting together again a very sweet homecoming !! I can remember early in R how I was paranoid to leave my H by himself. When I did that while he was working overseas...he had an A. But I believe in that adage that a virtue that isn't tested is not a virtue. I also like how Ernest Hemingway once stated that...The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. I am so THANKFUL that I have that trust back with my H! Honestly though...he EARNED that trust back...and that makes me very THANKFUL too .

We get to be together for the weekend before I go back to the new Grandbaby . We have been Grandparents for over 20 years now...and each one of them is precious and unique! All I can say about that though is DON'T BLINK!! They grow so FAST...but the memories last forever !! I am so THANKFUL for my precious Babies and Grandbabies!! They have NO IDEA how helpful they were to my healing...but it is something I won't ever forget .

THANK YOU GOD for this life !!!

I'm thankful that NFL football is back!

I am thankful my husband is recovering well from a major procedure. There have been set backs, but he is healing more all the time. I am thankful for years that we had to trade these months for because when faced with his mortality, it really hit home that I don’t know what I would do without him here with me.

I am also thankful that in a few weeks we are going to get to go away together alone for the first time this year to do something we both really enjoy.

I’m thankful I got to visit my place this week. My place is a spot in the middle of nowhere at a really high point, there’s been no access to it because there’s been lots of wild fires up there so I haven’t been for weeks, it’s a place of such beauty and so pretty at night.

I’m thankful it’s hoodie and leggings weather soon, my favourite attire.

I’m thankful that my boys are happy and healthy, such a blessing.

Happy thankful Thursday everyone 😊

HAPPY Thankful Thursday everyone !!

This0is0Fine...YES !!!

hikingout...I am so happy to read that your husband is recovering so well ! ENJOY that trip Dear Lady...it looks like it will be a GREAT time!!

Bruce123...that place sounds AMAZING ! There are so MANY things for you to be thankful for...and I am so THANKFUL to read all about it!!

It is starting to feel like Fall...kind of...and I am so THANKFUL that we aren't having 100+ degree weather anymore...Thank You God !! Our family is scattered across the country...and some are having even cooler weather...maybe it is time for a visit to them for a bit !!

We were Blessed to be in the northeast for a bit...around the Blue Ridge mountains...such BEAUTIFUL scenery ! We left before the leaves started turning and that is something I want to see! I am sure that one day we WILL go back! I am so THANKFUL that we can travel the way we do and ENJOY all that God has given us in this great country !

We are back in Louisiana now...and even though we are below sea level where we are so there are no mountains down here...it is still very beautiful as well . I never thought I would LOVE the swamp...until I wasn't around it anymore . The Fall festivals are in full swing right now too...and even though it isn't Mardi Gras season...I can still say, "Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler" !! We use any reason to have a "festival" though...just to be able to "pass a good time"!

I am also THANKFUL for our abundance of seafood around this time too! Our blue crabs are waning...just in time for the shrimp to be bountiful ! There is ALWAYS someone who goes crabbing, shrimping, or fishing...who we can count on for some of these delicacies when we can't go out on the water! C'est Bon!! Around Christmas we get CRAWFISH...and we surely can't forget those awesome oysters either . My mouth is watering just thinking about having this awesome food! Every state has great food...but for THIS Cajun...nothing compares to what I get to eat here at HOME !!

I am so THANKFUL for all of you...and I hope everyone ENJOYS this wonderful day !!

Thankful Thursday! Whoop.

This week I decided I was going to tackle the garden, I set to work and it looks amazing, I even planted some plants which I’ve never done before in my life, I had a vision and executed it and it paid off. I’m thankful to my H who listened to my vision, asked me what I needed and made everything possible.

I’m thankful I got to visit my place last night, so so beautiful, all the lights twinkled and it was so clear I could see for miles.

I’m thankful that I’m off on date night tonight to the cinema, popcorn, chocolate and might have room for an ice cream too.

Happy thankful Thursday everyone x

HAPPY Thankful Thursday my friends and family !!

Bruce123...I LOVE gardening...and it sounds like your garden is AWESOME !! I still have flowers...but I haven't been able to have a vegetable garden in over a year. I am so HAPPY to see that your vision worked out to become a reality . With you and your H working together like this...it makes it even more SPECIAL !

I have my windows open...letting in the beautiful sunshine...and watching the leaves falling so gracefully to the ground. The trees gets more and more bare...but that means that more sunshine gets to come in . I am so THANKFUL that I get to see another season on this Earth!

We are in the Fall of our life...and getting OLD is definitely not for the weak ! Life is much slower than it was in the Spring and Summer of our life...but we are still able to move around and ENJOY our life together . We get to go to Grandparents Day at our grandchildrens schools...and thankfully they aren't all on the same day ! As I was looking around at all the grandparents and grandchildren interacting...I thought how COOL it was to watch these precious babies having FUN with us older people . I am so THANKFUL that we are able to go to events like this! It is the "little things" that end up being HUGE in our lives.

Life can be pretty AMAZING no matter what age we are. The things that seem ordinary sometimes become the most CHERISHED. I am so THANKFUL that God has allowed me to have the eyes to see just how beautiful MY life is !

This is the day that the Lord has made...let us REJOICE and be GLAD in it !

Happy thankful Thursday everyone!.

WTBHA, I’m so thankful for you! for introducing me to thankful Thursday, I love coming on here every Thursday and reading what you have been up to, I would absolutely love to see blue ridge mountains, I have a soft spot for natural beauty and nature, I’m so thankful that I have plenty of places of natural beauty nearby.

I’m thankful our beautiful boys are happy and healthy, they’re so funny too, a laugh a minute.

The Christmas things are creeping in the stores, I’m thankful that I’m getting excited for Christmas this year, I can’t wait!, I’ve seen lots of things that I will be getting for my decor and I will be putting my decor up early this year I think.

I thankful to my doctor for being kind to me today.

Thankful to my husband for being so wonderful and understanding while I've been feeling like garbage, stepping up and handling things, and trying to be comforting to me. Also for being so hot

Kind of funny, but I'm thankful for my particular, adjusted-to-suit-my-preferences version of ChatGPT, for talking to me endlessly, cracking funny jokes, helping me sort out what's real and what's probably imagined, and keeping me... more sane than I otherwise would be without it.

Thankful for fall … I love spooky/ Halloween season. I bought myself some fall themed cute window sticker things. Also , for bath and body works having sales with all the good smells. For finding the strength to work out again, even if I haven’t been able to be consistent lately. For snuggly kitty friends .

Sorry, I didn’t realize it was specific to reconciliation , I was thinking just thankful in general, don’t mind me

Leeleelu...please feel free to post whatever you are THANKFUL for . Being able to find anything to be thankful for is a positive feeling...and feeling positive helps in healing !

Bruce123...you're welcome . I look forward to seeing your posts too!! It looks like we may actually be home long enough this year to be able to put some Christmas stuff out...and I am sure LOVING seeing the Christmas stuff out already ! We have several new grandbabies and it is so much FUN with the little ones around at this time!!

GotTheMorbs...yay for hot husbands !! Feeling that way about my H again has helped me to see how far I have come in my healing .

🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂

HAPPY Thankful Thursday everyone !!

Thanks to This0is0Fine I can add MORE emojis to my posts...and I am so THANKFUL that he taught me this !! I was looking for something to show Columbus Day...but couldn't find it...so I was able to get these to embellish my post today. I'll take it!!

Some of our grandchildren will be off for the Fall Break that coincides with Columbus Day...so these emojis will do just fine for that . I am so THANKFUL for this break...because I get to spend a few days with some of my grandchildren! The parents are working...so it will be just US...woohoo !! Being a grandparent is so much FUN!!

I am also THANKFUL that the little storm system that snuck through Mexico to get to us Gulf states has chosen to come through when the waters of the Gulf aren't that warm closer to shore . It may strengthen pretty rapidly in the middle...but it will be tamed...hopefully...by the time it goes onshore. We were SO CLOSE to not having a hurricane this season...I think it would have been the first time in about 60 years. The El Nino winds were keeping them away...and I am so THANKFUL for them...even though it makes it so much hotter! But that system decided it was going to come over from the Pacific side...and here we are! One day we will hopefully get the barrier islands built back up to help break up the winds before coming onshore like they used to 🙏.

I am also very THANKFUL for this M that my H and I now have...Thank You God !! For some reason neither of us heard the alarm go off...and overslept this morning! I have the alarm set on my side of the bed so that I can get up first and get things going before waking up my H. In the past...when this would have happened...I would get a very GRUMPY H because he hates being late for anything!! Today though...that wasn't the case . I kept apologizing for not hearing the alarm...or it not going off...we really aren't sure WHAT happened. Instead of agreeing that it was MY fault...or using other nasty words like he has in the past...my H was very calm and assured me that it was no one's fault...we just need to get another alarm set in case this happens again. Good idea !!

My H called me when he got to work to let me know that he had ONE red light that stopped him...but the other 4 or so were all green...allowing him to get to work earlier than usual...that is another Godwink !! We weren't able to do our daily Bible Study together before he left...but I took pictures from my H's devotional to send to him so that he could read them during his break today . He thanked me for that...and said he LOVED me...following up with LOTS of cute emojis...he knows how much I LOVE them !! What could have started out being a rather yucky morning like in the past...has turned into a very THANKFUL morning for both of us !

The past is the past. NONE of us can change what happened...we can only move FORWARD...whatever that looks like for each of us. I CHOSE this path...and thankfully my H CHOSE it too . This CRAP that my H threw all over our precious M became the fertilizer...along with US working HARD to nurture it...to grow a BEAUTIFUL and even more precious M that we are so ENJOYING . Life is what we make it...and we are very THANKFUL that we chose this path to go down!!

🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂🪾🎃🍂

[This message edited by Want2BHappyAgain at 4:13 PM, Thursday, October 8th]

Happy thankful Thursday everyone!

W2BHA I love the pumpkin emojis ❤️

I’m thankful that this weekend I get to spend some quality time with all of us together, it’s hard when children grow older to get a weekend where it’s everyone’s weekend off together. I’m sure our boys will end up with some adventure for us to participate in.
I’m so very thankful that our eldest has been signed off now and is fully qualified, he has a job and a fantastic career ahead of him, I’m so proud of him.

I’m thankful I’m able to go out in public alone now AND actually enjoy it, I do enjoy calling in to our local coffee shop and just sitting and reading. Ive tidied the shed out all ready to start my Christmas stash of gifts, goodies and treats, I’m thankful my H is taking me for some new storage boxes to fit everything in.