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this is me having fun at a wedding i m living proof proof that you are going to be ok proof that time does heal your wounds i m not saying this just happened recently it happened slowly with big moments of progress and subtle moments of silent change over the past few years i got better and then i got worse and worse i found myself a changed person and i wasn t sure how i would ever trust again but at the same time i was getting better finding ways to make myself happy trusting and loving and believing while not always knowing it was happening this isn t just about being able to watch wedding shows with reckless abandon again it s much bigger than that there s no more almost in almost over him i receive a lot of emails from readers who are just beginning this journey the pain is raw right now they still reach for the phone to call him only to realize he s not going to be at the end of the line they don t know what to do on saturday night because that was always their date night maybe they just found out about a deception that they never could have imagined and now they can t breathe without feeling pain in their stomach their chest literally in their heart maybe it was a slow quiet ending they moved apart until someone finally ripped off the relationship band aid no matter how or why it ended it hurts more than other people understand and the pain doesn t just go away because you want it to for anyone going through this i want you to know that it s going to be ok i m living proof but it s going to take time everyone says that but damn it it s true when my ex got married it served as a painful closure after that i no longer wanted to write about him or what i was going through and it felt really good freeing not to give him my thoughts or energy anymore my advice if you are thinking about him if you are talking about him stop talk about you think about you take care of you that s the best path to moving on believe that this is part of a bigger plan everything happens for a reason if it s god for you or fate or whatever just know that you are experiencing this hard time to get you ready for a better time you are learning lessons now that you ll need in the future you are becoming a stronger person it may not make sense now but it will in time and then there is forgiveness wow forgiveness is so tough especially if you ve been deceived the word forgiveness puts so much pressure on the forgiver the forgiver has the burden to accept the transgressor s apology let go of the pain and somehow grant forgiveness to the person who has done them wrong that s a lot to ask of someone especially when they are in pain oprah has a favorite quote that has really stuck with me and helped me along in my journey forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could be any different included at the end of this post is her full explanation of this quote but here s a snippet i think for myself and i know many of you you think forgiving means accepting what has happened to you well it is accepting that it has happened to you not accepting that it was ok for it to happen it is accepting that it has happened and now what do i do about it forgiving is giving up the hope not holding on hoping wishing that it could have been any other way than it actually was this quote this definition of the word forgiveness has changed my entire perspective the past few years and helped me get here are you living proof will you share some of your story in the comments copyright 2013 simply solo blog by catherine gryp all rights reserved 71 comments from uncategorized the next lol june 13 2013 tags dating home humor life love me my life people random thoughts relationship relationships self help single women ok let s just put it out there it s been um eight months since i wrote a blog post about seven months ago i could have quietly sneaked my way back into blog world without anyone being the wiser five months ago i could have told a funny story and all would have been forgiven three months ago sharing a dramatic life event would have sufficed and you would have shown me some comment love now it s been eight months and half of you think i m hiding a bun in the oven never mind that i m very much out of practice for example i probably spent the last 15 minutes deciding if sneaked or snuck was the correct usage in the second sentence this conundrum damn near made me wait another eight months to write again it seems i ve got some explaining to do will you believe i ve been busy 1 i ve been busy scaring my neighbors you may remember i put an offer in on a house i was super excited couldn t have been happier but shortly after they accepted my offer all the horrendous things that could go wrong started to race through my mind what if there is an annoying dog next door that yaps all night what if the hot water heater doesn t get water hot at all and taking a cold shower no longer has a frisky meaning but is literally the only kind of shower i can take what if the toilet seats aren t comfortable i checked everything paid for an inspection even had my parents come see the house but i didn t check out the toilet seats i was foolish not to try the goods first considering the average person spends three years of their life on the toilet in reality that s probably the first thing i should have checked i think you are really going to like the size of the master bedroom my realtor would say whoa whoa whoa slow down there first things first i m going to have to pee in each bathroom got any tp on hand the what ifs continued what if there isn t an adequate mexican restaurant nearby what if my house is actually right beside a bus stop for some private school that opens at the crack of dawn what if the baskin robbins down the street the nearest scoop ice cream closes what if my neighbors are weird or mean what if there are bugs dear god what if there are centipedes chef was kind enough to add a what if to my list what if it s actually wonderful and a great decision damn him and his unbridled optimism last october i finally closed on the house and moved in things were going pretty well i hired movers because i firmly believe that after the age of 26 one should never ask their friends to help them move i see some of you shaking your heads protesting what if i make it fun and buy beer and pizza i m here to tell you that no amount of beer or pizza or even ice cream justifies a moving party after 26 i don t make the rules i just report them notice my cutoff is 26 considering i had my last moving party at 25 ahem ok so last october i moved into the new house you know the enormous amount of time you spend searching for boxes before a move it becomes an obsession an endless quest to get the perfect boxes to move all your crap this seinfeld stand up routine explains it perfectly but then once you are all unpacked you have to do something to get rid of all those boxes score i forgot that now that i bought a house i have my own trash can i can conveniently roll to the bottom of the driveway on trash day but wait no one told me when trash day was in my new neighborhood this posed a problem the first night in the new house chef and i were outside and noticed everyone had their trash cans at the bottom of their driveways sweet trash day is tomorrow chef said unless trash day was today and they just haven t brought the trash cans back up yet i countered champagne to celebrate the new house we were in a pickle so i did what any normal new homebuyer who had been celebrating with a few glasses of champagne and wanted to make her boyfriend laugh would do i jokingly pulled my black hoodie over my head and sprinted toward my next door neighbor s trash can to check if it was full of course like clockwork my neighbors walked out of their house i couldn t quite tell if they saw me mid sprint or if they just caught a hooded figure lifting the lid of their trash can i had some explaining to do um sorry i just moved in and i was trying to figure out when trash day was i stammered it s tomorrow they said coldly nothing like making a first impression now i m the crazy neighbor in other news i also have centipedes that s all i want to say about that 2 i live with a boy in a world of high stakes dating i upped the ante chef and i moved in together yes i m proud to announce that i am officially living in sin the last time i moved in with a boy there was this whole pretense that we must be engaged first so much so that he proposed the day i moved in no need for that here i was really nervous about moving in with chef i maybe had one or two monica moments where she laments i have to live with a boy i worried we wouldn t like living together we ve both been living on our own for years so we really like our space and because of his work schedule we ve never spent a ton of extended time with each other cue the questions what if we move in together and fight all the time what if he s messy what if he deletes my shows off of the dvr what if he finishes the ice cream without replacing it what if he brought the centipedes i digress the wide selection of ice cream i bought on a recent shopping trip well here s what happened he makes the bed i constantly move his shoes out of the thoroughfares and pick up his socks he cooks me delicious dinners and i well i take pictures of the food and post them on facebook he tells me i m pretty every day even when i m not looking so pretty and i keep the freezer well stocked with ice cream to avoid world war iii he makes me happy almost every single day it s not so bad living with a boy 3 creating the next lol takes time ever wonder where lol smh ttyl and jk started yeah me too sorry i don t have any answers for you but you are witnessing the creation of the next lol and i need your help spreading the word tys what the heck is tys you ask well don t google it too thoroughly because a few wrong souls have identified it as thank you sir that s a fail if i ve ever seen one tys told you so if you ve ever needed a really easy way to tell someone i was right and you were wrong tys is your answer if you simply don t have enough time for the told you so song tys is your play text it call someone up on the phone announce it and hang up consider writing it next to a smiley face on a small slip of paper like when you ask your boyfriend to take out the trash because trash day is tomorrow and he says he will do it later and you say he ll forget and should do it now and then the following night the trash is stinking up the kitchen and he clearly forgot stick a post it note to that trash ladies tys learn it love it spread it and you can be part of a movement this picture makes me want to be on vacation again asap so those are my excuses besides all of this i also started an awesome new job went on a fun beach vacation visited san francisco played with my sister s baby who is somehow already crawling became obsessed with princesses long island bought a floppy hat and listened to the great gatsby soundtrack at least 5 times through what s new with you since i ve introduced you to the next lol will you forgive my absence have a tys you want to brag about copyright 2013 simply solo blog by catherine gryp all rights reserved 39 comments from uncategorized finding my voice april 3 2013 today i d like to share a guest post written by joan one of the strongest women i ve had the pleasure of knowing i hope you enjoy her post and can identify with what she s overcome the past few years after she suddenly became single following a more than 40 year marriage quick shameless plug do you have a story to tell advice to offer did you just have literally the worst date of your life and you must write about it i d love to have you as the next simply solo spotlight find out how you can be the next writer for simply solo here simply solo spotlight finding my voice i remember maybe vaguely faintly having a voice at one time in my life it may have been when i was born and learned to cry which is one s first means of vocal communication somewhere along life s path i lost my voice i allowed it to be taken from me and i freely gave it up without realizing or thinking about it i m not sure exactly where and when that happened but if i trace it back i am sure it was in my early formative years isn t that the acceptable answer blame things on others and early childhood experiences in other words our parents siblings society and upbringing joan says her experience has been like a butterfly coming out of its cocoon photo courtesy of greg foster well my friends let me tell you i found and reclaimed my voice yes after being separated for more than 60 years i found it and treasure it more because something so precious that was lost for so long is now back with its rightful owner me trust me when i say if any attempt is ever made to remove or wrestle it from me there will be so much wrath leveled upon the offender they will never regroup my promise to myself as my own best friend and to my voice is i will never let life circumstances or anyone rob me of my voice again i now have a voice to say what i want need and expect additionally life experiences have given me the abilities to think independently stand on my own two feet and clearly articulate my wants needs desires and dreams after all is said and done i am sure the events of the past two and a half years played a major part in finding and reclaiming my voice curious minds may want to know what happened during this time well you don t need to read the enquirer as you won t find it there also you don t need to listen to gossip as we all know how gossip chains work how much credibility do they have less than none in my book which i could put in analytic terms such as r value confidence interval etc but i won t bore you with those gossip chains thrive on drama which is always more intriguing than just the plain jane facts ma am what are the plain jane facts ma am bottom line up front bluf as we like to call it is that after 43 5 years of marriage 48 49 of relationship surviving the trials and tribulations of military life in support of iso my soldier husband s military career raising a tight knit loving family and the two most absolutely marvelous children a mother could ever wish for let alone have losing our first grandson under devastating circumstances arrival of precious grandchildren medical issues ranging from the routine and minor to the not so minor such as a mini stroke suffered by my loving husband and finally setting a target date to step into retirement i found myself no longer the cherished and loved wife and person i d always believed i was yes it rocked my world and a lot of others that are near and dear to me however life goes on we put one foot in front of the other endure the mourning process for the loss of the old life and everything we built together the plans hopes and dreams of retirement and begin a new chapter in life on a 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