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Having trouble with the "becoming an ex" label

patricia6
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Today, I feel weapy. Today morning comes to slowly. Today it has been to long since I heard that voice on the telephone, felt that hand in mine, felt delight shine in the eyes of another. Maybe becoming an ex is not the best choice for my needs in all ways.
Just the breathing one. Sure, we know that this divorse is the right way to live. That there is more happiness to be found after the brain heals, and the lung capacity restores, and the heart is beating healthfully again. Change is never easy. I am lucky that I lived in that euphoria for the whole five days in a row. It made those days easier on me. Today is weighing in heavey with emotion, tears, fealing. I feel lonily. I feel jilted and that I have failed...which I have not. I have done the right thing. Been determined, wanted to AND I DID IT ! I am one day further down that road. Standing tall. Only I do not want to be "an ex". I never wanted to be the ex. I want what belongs to me fully. Not to be defined by some really bad relationship. Not to be known by what I once did, don't do, where in a very big way I failed. The idea of being and ex....it feels to personal somehow, to defined by negative association. I am a free air breather...not some former miss company smoke stack.
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kelly36
Member
I SOOOO feel you Patricial.....almost 9 days for me.....at times I feel like i've lost my best friend. My buddy was always there for me when I was Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired (remember H.A.L.T.?) Could always reach out for them, anytime of the day or night, for comfort. Killing myself softly. Only those close to me know that I was in a physically (emotionally, financially, spiritually) abusive marriage for 6 years. Beaten and degraded even with babies in my belly. And you know the really sick part? Even after I finally got him out of the house, I cried from lonliness everynight for the longest time. What a shame. So I know about feeling what you're feeling.....just because a relationship is toxic doesn't mean we still don't mourn the end. So mourn. And let it make you stronger, because it will. But don't take another puff (don't answer when he calls!) Then get it out of your system, and move on to the best part of your life!!!
claudia2
Member
Patricia~~Honey I don't know you and I am sorry you are feeling this way. This is not the ideal situation for all of us I guess, just like those that are Non drinkers, Non drug users...We are Non's...We NO LONGER associate ourselves with our PAST habit if you will, although I know it is an addiction, but for over 40 years I called it my last vice..my little bad habit.
We are all on a JOURNEY together.......YOU ARE A WINNER....A "NON SMOKER". Do not feel robbed or jilted!! You are so right, you have not FAILED...you are your own success story!!!
Everything you have said comes from the divorce period as you called it. But you heal, you MOVE ON, you Graduate.....one day, and I hope it is so for you as it is for me, you will never think about cigarettes again...but you will never FORGET EX. You have developed relationships here that might last you a lifetime!! I have made some that are over 9 months that I already feel have been lifetime relationships ( NOT AS WHAT YOU CALL BEING DEFINED BY SOME BAD RELATIONSHIP!!) Yes, you can stand tall. We all do each and every day that we can say that we have not smoked. I know that I am a WINNER. I belong to a GROUP of WINNERS~~~~Not a SOME FORMER MISS COMPANY SMOKE STACK!!!!
chelle
Member
beautifully spoken! I understand your feelings completely!
carlie
Member
Patricia...read Claudia's comment again.....cuz all I can say here is; "DITTO" !!!!!!
edith2
Member
When I quit smoking, I felt like I had lost my best friend and comfort blanket. Not any more. I AM FREE. I am no longer a slave to my addiction to smoking! I can go anywhere I want, do anything I want, and scream for joy without coughing my lungs out!!
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Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty! I'm free at last!!