The last couple of weeks have been misserable for me. I really shouldn't be having such a hard time with Jeff being gone. I was after all a single mother for nine years. I have plenty of money, a nice home, a safe comfortable life. I didn't always have those things and so why am I having such a hard time right now?

I thought that I had grown up and become a person who deals well with adversity. But, the truth is that I married well. The first sign of difficulties and I didn't know how to pull myself up by my boot straps and feel better.