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No words of wisdom? No encouragement?

Maybe this is the first step in healing. I know what it's like to bottle up your emotions for far too long, seeming to have it all together for so many years only to come unraveled and have no one to talk to about it. My BFF for 40+ years doesn't want to hear about it and tells me to do something ab...

I'm a 50yo mother of 2 grown kids. I've been the "strong one" my entire life .. up until 2008 when I lost a good paying job. At the time I was seeing someone I thought was the love of my life. A series of back-to-back events from that day (8 JUL 2008) triggered something inside of me. Som...