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I've decided now to keep a diary of all this, so where to start ummm let me see


APRIL 2006

I get told by my husbands mother that he is not happy at all, in fact he is pretty miserable. I knew this but thought it was to do with the fact that money was tight, not anything to do with me.

Apparently it was me (oh joy) I was apparently being tolerated for the sake of our son. I'm getting ahead of myself here. Now I of course wanted to talk with him about this, he was on nights, so yes I agree not a great time for discussions. Thing was I was worried, I needed to have (hopefully) my mind put to rest, so I could be 'ok'.

I tackled him about it that day when he was home from work, turned out he no longer loved me and was tolerating me because he thought if he finished things I would stop him seeing his son. The whole 'not letting him see our little one' just proclaimed to me how little he knew me for one, what was worse was that he had felt like this for a while and had never said anything.

I then started making noises about going to my dads, he didn't want me to go, so that night I stayed. Because it was half term (I work at a school) I had plently of time to think, and think I did, I started to wonder what I was waiting around for, after all he had told me he didn't love me so why on earth did he want me around. I made the decision and went. Packed all mine and my son's things and threw myself upon my dad's mercy .

So there I am, living with my parents, completely broken. That is excatly how I felt, broken, and that is how I still feel in a way. I'm completely livid with myself for wasting 9 years of my life on someone who evidently wasn't worth it.

I filed for a divorce. This apparently was quite a shock to my husband. I'm not sure why, after all what other step was there to take? At one point during this whole mess he accused me of 'just walking out and not wanting to talk' yet his mother had told me that she had suggested counciling and he had said there was no way he was going to do that. He knew where I was, he knew where my dad lived and he knew my dads number, so had he wanted to talk he could have at any time.

So where am I now?

Well My son and I are living in renting accommodation that we can't really afford. So everything is a real big struggle. Financial matters regarding the house myself and my husband owned are still being 'processed' are people dragging their feet? Maybe so. I will never ever get back on the property ladder, I've been told I can get a £40,000 mortgage, I'll probably get £30,000 from the house if I'm lucky, that £70,000 no where near enough to buy a house. The council are a waste of time regarding housing I may as well bang my head against a brick wall. So here we are single mum struggling to give her son a decent life. We are further with the house now, at last my husband as got together his disclosure (something that started in November 2006) so fingers crossed, we will soon be a little healthier financially.

I have decided to keep a diary of our struggles here so if you don't want to hear it then I suggest you unsub. Just a warning Im sur I've missed loads of info out, so anything you don't understand please feel free to ask.

Oh hunny Keep posting I for one will be here to listen.

*quietly watches, waiting for a light to be seen at the end of the tunnel*

I do believe that would be the oncoming train

With my luck, and it being a Monday ... Yep, a 78-car freight train.

Mind, with any luck, we'll have some aboriginals being PO'd at somebody again, and sitting a blockade on the tracks.

ooohhh are they navtive to Canada too?

Our own version of them, yes. The don't like the term "Indian", and then chose to not like 'native' as a name. This season, they are 'aboriginals', nations of them. Some happily join in with the rest of the country, making a home and a living for themselves. The bulk though, happily take billions of government resources, and demand more. Because of perceived ill-treatment a couple of hundred years ago. This while driving new cars, wearing the best clothes, listening to tunes on the latest technologies. And not a slim or slender one among them.

ahhhh

should have been like Britain. Conquered just about everywhere and instead of playing out, gave it back

These days, the 'giving back' would account for about 75% of the geography of this country. Coincidentally, also including the most developed and lucrative regions. Odd that, eh?

ahhh but they are still 'canada' thats your down fall, India is India not Great Britain same with hong kong etc etc etc. That my friend is the get out clause

Hmmmm, that might almost begin to sound similar to the Palestinian demand of a "right to return" then. Everyone who is now here, should go back to where their ancestors came from. I wonder if a little corner of Germany would like all the descendants of a few dozen families to 'move in'? Lets see, since 1830, that would be how many generations? With 3 to 23 offspring per family ...

I think there comes a time where you simply have to accept that folks are where they are, and you just have to find a way to get along.

You could give them Quebec...I mean noone's gonna miss it

That has been suggested any number of times ... But since there are laws that make French the first language in that province, and a lot of folks don't care to learn it ...

Onwards to plan B?

Yeah, but if you hand over the whole province to the indiginous population then they can change the laws to allow whatever language they want to be spoken

I have seen pics of a lot of fully equipped and furnished military facilities that were handed over, during our years of down-sizing. I can just about make out marks in the landscape where structures once stood. If you can't eat it, drink it or sell it ... burn it and bull-doze the remains.

I'm sure I've missed something here

or maybe don't remember it

Oh, just rambling on about a bit of a head-ache we have again lately. Mostly I'm annoyed because they're latest protest caused my father-in-law to leave a train, take a 5 hour bus ride, and suffer miserably from back pain for a week and a half. And he was just one of the 3,500 "inconvenienced" by a blockade on rail lines. The freight company still hasn't tallied how much financial loss they suffered.

All because one agreement between a 'nation' and a construction company isn't working out to one party's advantage.

ahhh ok

I'll shut my mouth

OMG it was just on the news that bush winked at the Queen!!!!!!!!