Blondie473: After reading all the replies...and the movie quotes...I realised there is alot of advice out there. Why do people give advice?
The people on this site and others are all on a road to recovery like you.... you took the first step :) you reached out. There will be advice...there will be set-ups by your friends....there will be moments where you ache...and moments of unbearable sadness...and loneliness...and THEN one day, you look at yourself and start to laugh at the pitiable thing you have become and that's the first step. Some people try and date in amongst all that....works for some...not for others.
To paraphrase another movie "Sleepless in Seattle"...just breath in and out and get up and go to work and then one day you wont have to think about breathing in and out...:)
its nice just sharing how we coped with things differently, considering that we all went thru things differently. i just different idea's and look at circumstances in a different way usually after a decent dmc. jmo