What are YOU going to reclaim?

[Taucher]

I'll explain.

 

Last week I got invited to a wedding in Paris for September 2010. I will go. Thing is, me and my ex spent the best weekend of our relationship in Paris in May 2006. We were SO in love, the time we had was amazing, we laughed so much and just kind of gazed into each others eyes...all that. I have never been happier. I LOVE Paris.

 

But, that was the one and only time I have been to Paris. I told my best friend (and now flatmate) that Paris now would be weird, just remind me of that weekend. I will be at the wedding in Paris and around Paris thinking of that amazing time that I had with my ex.

 

So my friend told me..."You need to reclaim Paris!" He told me that I need to make Paris MINE again, not me and my ex's. And I need to do it soon.

 

So, I have booked Eurostar tickets to spend 12 hours in Paris (8am - 8 pm) on a Wednesday in mid October. I will kill the pain of Paris and make memories of when I was there.

 

There are other things I am going to reclaim.

 

How about you lot?

 

T

[Phedre]

I send loads and loads of happy supportive thoughts your way and admire your taking this big step. This takes lots and LOTS of courage.

 

I shall be reclaiming the color blue, my (enter lots of letters here that stand for something having to do with the current messed up-ness of my marriage) H's favorite color is blue and when I went shopping for some paint for the bathroom I automatically skipped over the whole blue section not wanting to think of him and then thought 'wait, I am going to let him take a WHOLE color palette from me?' My trust, pride, self-respect and our marriage wasn't enough to take, now he gets blue? Oh hell no he does not! So I am currently deciding which shade of blue I want to paint the bathroom... additionally ironic for my passive aggressive side is that while I am using a blue color which he would have loved in our bathroom, I am using a blue color I adore and that I know he would hate... so am I also claiming the bathroom?

 

Now if I could just claim my heart back I'd be cake. lol

 

Good Luck Taucher and thanks for setting a great example

[logitech]

Any international travel. Music concerts and festivals. Restaurants. Just to name a few...

[JaggedRoad]

It's going to be everything for me except my future.

[4givrnt4gtr]

I shall reclaim San Francisco.

 

Thats where he dreamed of ever living. What he chose over us. I was supposed to move there next year with him and go to school there.

 

Ive been waivering between going and going somewhere else. But F* that!!! Ive talked to the schools already, I even know exactly where in the bay I want to live, I will not allow him to take my year long plan like that.

 

I almost did and felt so so lost. Also, I see San Francisco stuff EVERYWHERE. I am now choosing to see it more as a good sign for a great future with a clean slate than about him. Screw him.

 

So Norcal...you shall be mine again

[Woggle]

I reclaimed my house. My ex forced me to move here even though I never wanted to and then betrayed me when we did. I made the whole house over plus payed it off and now I wouldn't trade it for the world. Remodeling this place after my divorce worked better than any therapist could have.

[Exit]

There's a little tourist town nearby where we went on our vacation. After we broke up I said I hope that it remains our place and I hope we never take other people there. Screw that, I really want to go back, and probably will take another girl with me some day.

[Odyssey]

I need to reclaim myself.