Orissia wrote:How do I cope with all this when my time on earth is so precious and so short? How do I step back and put it behind me? Basically, I need to move on. I'm a Christian with Buddhist tendencies so any advice, spiritual and non-spiritual, practical and emotional would help.
Over several months, when my treatment side effects were at their worst, they started going out - to lunch, dinner, galleries, once to the theatre (all the things we used to do regularly), once to her apartment to meet up to go out - in order to forget their problems and reclaim some normalcy in their respective lives
My husband has no friends other than me as he's a natural loner and introvert so cutting all contact
with his co-worker who he gets on with is difficult.
He told me he never tells me about their platonic, completely-above-board coffees etc because he thinks knowing will send my mind
into overdrive and make mountains out of molehills.
How do I cope with all this when my time on earth is so precious and so short? How do I step back and put it behind me? Basically,
I need to move on. I'm a Christian with Buddhist tendencies so any advice, spiritual and non-spiritual, practical and emotional would help.
Orissia wrote:His way of coping was getting closer to his co-worker. He says he was struggling to cope with my illness and she was struggling with a work crisis. Over several months, when my treatment side effects were at their worst, they started going out - to lunch, dinner, galleries, once to the theatre (all the things we used to do regularly), once to her apartment to meet up to go out - in order to forget their problems and reclaim some normalcy in their respective lives. He claims they never even kissed, though there was mutual attraction between them. He says they both knew their relationship was "futile" (his words).
How do I cope with all this when my time on earth is so precious and so short? How do I step back and put it behind me? Basically, I need to move on. I'm a Christian with Buddhist tendencies so any advice, spiritual and non-spiritual, practical and emotional would help.
Edited to add: he tells she's dating now - through friends and online dating. I also realise he could be minimising, that they may have kissed but I'll never know and time is short...
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