Letting go

It hurts. Sometimes emotional pain is more intense than physical pain. The pain he has caused me is something I think I will have for the rest of my life. I am never going to be the same.

I have made the conscious decision to take the hurt and hatred I feel and use it to propel me towards a better life for me and my girls. I refuse to let his stupid mistakes define who I am. I am going to be a better person after this. I guess I should thank him, my former husband. I plan to open myself up to everything life has to offer; to seize opportunities to experience the world and the people in it; to create opportunities that will allow me to become the person I have always wanted to be.

Abraham Lincoln once said that the best way to predict the future is to create it. I will not let my past define me. I will create a better present and future for me and my girls.