Updated w/pics: OMG OMG OMG!!! My couch is coming!!!!
Dec 28, 2018 13:44:42 GMT
**GypsyGirl**, Sarah*H, and 75 more like this
Post by Really Red on Dec 28, 2018 13:44:42 GMT
Update
I hope you can see the couch okay. It's big. I love it a ridiculous amount. I touch it and stare at it. All my kids love it so so much.
I threw away the couch my ex broke.
I moved the family room couch to the nook (behind the tree - you can't see it)
The new couch is in the family room. We all sit on it constantly!! Well constantly for 1.5 days! It is magnificent. I just want to sit and stare at it. I read a whole book on it between yesterday and today (Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney - fabulous!)
Thank you all for your words of support!! I absolutely would not have done this without you!
Also, to answer some of your questions...
I posted when he left, but it was not in the main portion of the post, so it didn't get seen by everyone. My BIL did everything he could to make sure his brother wouldn't come (a long letter with so many points about why it was a bad idea, my BIL should have been a lawyer), but I had reached my limit. The week before Thanksgiving, my ex got on a plane and went to Switzerland (there was an exciting iPad emergency moment, but otherwise smooth sailing). He struggled with going, but I knew it was the right thing, not just for me, but more importantly for him. He needed to be around someone who loved him and I did not. He needed to see someone other than me. I wrote all his family and his friends and asked them to make 30 minutes a month to see him.
The result? Such a success!! My ex is SO SO SO happy. He calls me up every few days filled with happiness and joy in how many people he sees and how great he is doing. We can have conversations. Not in-depth ones, but small ones that we couldn't have before he left. I knew he would be happy there, but I also understood why he was so scared. I was what he knew and he was comfortable with. I don't know that ex will be able to work again, but I do know he will easily be able to live on his own again. He is doing so so well. I'm a little sick about the next 4 years I had planned on child/spousal support, but I think I will manage. Last year for two of my kids in college and then there's just one more. No more fun couches to buy, and I will be on a strict budget, but I think I'm good.
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They just called me! It's technically quite late as it was supposed to be here in the beginning of December, but they told me it wouldn't get here until next week. They called this morning and wanted to set up a delivery for next Wednesday and I didn't even have to give my sob story as they said since I was so close by they could squeeze it on the truck and get it to me in the next freaking hour. OH MY GOD!!!
I am so excited!!!
Perhaps this is a little much to be this excited BUT I AM!!!!
I hope you can see the couch okay. It's big. I love it a ridiculous amount. I touch it and stare at it. All my kids love it so so much.
I threw away the couch my ex broke.
I moved the family room couch to the nook (behind the tree - you can't see it)
The new couch is in the family room. We all sit on it constantly!! Well constantly for 1.5 days! It is magnificent. I just want to sit and stare at it. I read a whole book on it between yesterday and today (Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney - fabulous!)
Thank you all for your words of support!! I absolutely would not have done this without you! Also, to answer some of your questions...
I posted when he left, but it was not in the main portion of the post, so it didn't get seen by everyone. My BIL did everything he could to make sure his brother wouldn't come (a long letter with so many points about why it was a bad idea, my BIL should have been a lawyer), but I had reached my limit. The week before Thanksgiving, my ex got on a plane and went to Switzerland (there was an exciting iPad emergency moment, but otherwise smooth sailing). He struggled with going, but I knew it was the right thing, not just for me, but more importantly for him. He needed to be around someone who loved him and I did not. He needed to see someone other than me. I wrote all his family and his friends and asked them to make 30 minutes a month to see him.
The result? Such a success!! My ex is SO SO SO happy. He calls me up every few days filled with happiness and joy in how many people he sees and how great he is doing. We can have conversations. Not in-depth ones, but small ones that we couldn't have before he left. I knew he would be happy there, but I also understood why he was so scared. I was what he knew and he was comfortable with. I don't know that ex will be able to work again, but I do know he will easily be able to live on his own again. He is doing so so well. I'm a little sick about the next 4 years I had planned on child/spousal support, but I think I will manage. Last year for two of my kids in college and then there's just one more. No more fun couches to buy, and I will be on a strict budget, but I think I'm good.
********************************
They just called me! It's technically quite late as it was supposed to be here in the beginning of December, but they told me it wouldn't get here until next week. They called this morning and wanted to set up a delivery for next Wednesday and I didn't even have to give my sob story as they said since I was so close by they could squeeze it on the truck and get it to me in the next freaking hour. OH MY GOD!!!
I am so excited!!!
Perhaps this is a little much to be this excited BUT I AM!!!!
.I hope no one ever has to shop for this “kind of couch”. Lol
