Growing Up

Some of you may have already read this. It's pretty concise. It doesn't much share where I am at with things between him and I or how I got there but it sums up the end point fairly well.

What's interesting is that as I look forward, I don't see that many great changes in my relationship with zagatto. We've always been better friends than lovers. We'll always be friends. The permanent bond that is Katina is not going to go away and I've been really questioning the lessons I'm teaching her in my life. I went back to Social Work after she was born, because I wasn't happy in the work I was doing. I wanted to teach her to be happy in the work she does. Now I'm leaving a marriage, because I'm not happy in it. I want to show her that marriage doesn't have to be hurt and pain and sacrifice.

As our friends talk to us about how we each got here, they'll find we have travelled different roads to this end point, even though we've travelled it together. We've been together 11 years and it's simply time.

Comments will be screened permanently to respect the emotional state that both Joe and I are in right now.