What do you do with painful memories?
I recently had a very strong and powerful friendship end in my life. It has been painful and awful and for the sake of all involved, the person will remain nameless and I will not go into any details on it. While I have never personally been divorced, I have been through a few in my life and it feels similar. I know some might compare it to a death but I wouldn’t. In death, the finality of it takes away the hope and I personally just tend to focus on the positive memories and not the pain. I know this is not true for everyone but it has been my personal experience with this kind of loss. Where as in divorce, separation, whatever you want to call it, that doesn’t happen organically for me and I tend to focus on the negative. I feel betrayed. I feel like the entire friendship was fraudulent and made me a fool. I feel so angry I can hardly keep my eyeballs straight and I feel hurt like I have never been before. And I am using ...
