ganymede wrote:Hi all,
Will weigh in tomorrow but may be quiet on the forums for awhile... Or less loud at least.
These past few weeks have been tough bit I've been faced with my toughest time yet. My relationship is now definitely over, my partner has been having an affair and I have moved back with my parents to start afresh. I'm gutted, ruined, heartbroken and angry as well as very shocked. I'm going to try with an iron will to keep the scales going downward. I'm single now so I need to be at my best and focus on ME.
All the best everyone, hopefully I will post more when I have my computer set back up again.
Oh Shelley, I'm sooooooooooooo sorry to hear this news.
I know it's no great comfort, but believe me, there is life beyond a broken relationship with a cheating man!! You'll get through this and be better off without him.
You'll lose the weight, feel better about yourself, and discover a whole new world full of decent, loving and faithful ones. You're a strong woman, and as time goes on, you'll see that you don't need anyone to compliment the perfection that is YOU!!! xx
Reading your news, made me feel guilty about sitting here feeling sorry for myself. Not because I sprained my ankle, and was limping around in pain trying to soldier on in my new (5 weeks in) job, but because of a bomb-shell dropped in my lap yesterday.....I GOT LAID OFF!! After just 5 weeks I was told that my services were no longer required and wasn't given much of an explanation as to why. I thought everything was fine, my manager had praised my "picking things up so quickly" as recently as last week, so hence my shock when she hit me with that! What happened, why the change??? Maybe it was the fact that I was the only "outsider" in the business, that is, I was the only one who wasn't hired because of her connections to the Managing Director (or his wife, cousin, or next door neighbour)!!! Everyone in the office, and I mean, EVERYONE was either related to, or on very friendly terms with him directly or to his wife, cousin twice removed which used to make me feel awkward as I couldn't join into their familiar banter. It certainly helps explain the incident last week when some woman (apparently the MD's first cousin?) came into the office (with coffee and his favourite custard doughnuts) to meet with him, and every now and then I'd spot them looking over at me and quickly turning away when they'd see that I'd notice!!! Hmmmm.....
And stupid me, the eternal optimist thought nothing of it!

Funny how everything up until that point was fine, and this week (though the MD was reasonably civil) started being fairly cold towards me.
Nevertheless, when I was given the news (half an hour before COB) to finish up yesterday, yep...not even allowing me to finish up at the end of the week, I was very polite and handled the situation professionally, and went over to my desk, packed my stuff up and walked out holding my head up high!
So needless to say, I'll be around a bit more on the forum now that I have free time, in between job hunting again!!!

Life is a great mystery Shelley, full of stuff set to challenge us and as they say, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Oh crap, I'm gonna end up with guns the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger!!!
