Coming Down the Home Stretch!

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Coming Down the Home Stretch!
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Thu, 04-29-2004 - 1:45pm
Ex-h signed the papers yesterday. I signed them today. My lawyer is filing tomorrow morning. In my state, there's a wait of 31 days, then it's final (for uncontested divorces where we've reached our own agreements, already). So...sometime 'on or after June 1', to use my lawyer's lingo, I will be divorced!!!!!

And I'm in NC with SO right now, so having to celebrate this one on my own. But it's kind of fitting, really. For all these major milestones, the timing has been such that I'm not able to share it with him right away. I think that's probably turning out to be a healthy thing. After all, this is *my* deal, it's not about him or about us, so it's probably better that I assimilate and integrate these things without him.

I did want to share my exciting news with you guys, though!!!

Lucky


Edited 4/29/2004 2:51 pm ET ET by luckyme814

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Thu, 04-29-2004 - 3:22pm
Yeay!
cl-noregretsyet (co-cl of MAS board)
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Thu, 04-29-2004 - 8:05pm
Thanks, NRY. I already did my 'thing' to recognize this turning point in my life...I got a tattoo that is rife with symbolism. I love it. Now....as to what SO can do for me....maybe we can finally HAVE SEX!!!! On a regular basis!!! lol!!!! We only have a couple of times when his usual reserve wasn't nearly so strong and I caught him with his guard down!!! He's got some Clinton-esque idea that if we aren't regularly sleeping together, I can get on the stand in a custody/visitation hearing, if need be, and say I'm not sleeping with anyone, lol!!! So I know EXACTLY how I plan to celebrate with him!!!!!

rofl,

Lucky

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Fri, 04-30-2004 - 10:01am
You know what?
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Fri, 04-30-2004 - 10:06am
A butterfly - free to fly - stragetically placed would be good. ;-)
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Fri, 04-30-2004 - 11:30am
Heheh....yes, a butterfly is part of mine, lol!!! Mine is 4 flowers. One represents my father who got cancer and died when I was 20. That really changed me, of course. As did my marriage, which another flower represents. Then there's the flower symbolizing my four children -- there is a petal for each one. The last flower represents the process I've undergone this past year or so. The realization of what my life had become, the loneliness, the pain, the bitterness, the angst, my affair with SO, my awakening sexuality. All of it. The butterfly is resting on that last flower. Within the shelter of these flowers, I have metamorphed into a beautiful creature who is now poised to take flight.

Kinda dopey, huh? But I like it.

Lucky