Hello, and probably goodbye

I haven't been here for a while.  I've been having too much fun.

 So, where am I now?

When I first arrived here in February, or whenever it was a lifetime ago, I was a total mess.  My wife was throwing me out, and it felt like twenty years was just counting for nothing.  I was still in love with her, and I couldn't see a future without her.  

Now, six months or so later, I'm a changed man.  Happy, lively, confident, and enjoying every day.   I'm more creative than I've been for twenty years, I go out regularly, I see more of my friends, and, truly, I couldn't be more content.  I get on better with my kids than we did when I was still at home, and there's even, maybe, someone else on the horizon.  

The actual divorce hasn't even really started properly.  I've done the Form E, and agreed not to contest what my wife has put in the draft petition, and we've informally agreed how to split everything, but nothing formal has happened. To be honest, I don't really care.  The ball's in her court, and when she's good and ready, she can start filing stuff.   I have an excellent lawyer, and he reckons this can all be done fairly painlessly.  Whatever issues or problems she has now, they're her own problem, not mine.  As long as the kids are looked after, and they know that I'm there for them, that's the end of my concern. 

So if I don't reappear here, it's because I'm having the time of my life.

I just want to say three things before I go.

1.  To all my friends here - thank you.  You kept me going through the darkest days of my life.  Without you, I don't know what I would have done. 
   
2. To the wikivorce team - you're doing a wonderful thing.  You'll always have my gratitude.
3. To anyone who's new here - take heart. No matter how bad things seem, they do get better.   Blogging helps, chatting helps, and just knowing that there are others in the same situation helps.  Just focus on getting through day by day, grieve when you need to, and then pick yourself up and make yourself a new future.  Yes, there will be practical problems, but you'd be surprised what doesn't really matter when you get down to it.  

 So, take care, everyone, and goodbye.  

 Mongoose out.