Fake smiles in Real lifes Trials: You are not alone

Welcome to Fake smiles in Real lifes Trials, a place where you'll find solace and understanding. I believe that even through life's hardest times, and the struggles of dealing with children and family, even a narcissists, addict, cheater, liar, or those who inflict emotional, mental, or physical abuse, you are never truly alone. We've all smiled through pain, navigated uncertainty, happiness, sadness, laughs along with smiles and ultimately realized that while life presents many 'fake smiles,' a supportive community awaits.

I wake... and the race is ON!!

hate that I lay in bed beside this person who I waited SO very long for, who I had let my mind wonder off to through out so many years of my life. I use to play back to this one day in time, where I let this nice side of this person take up thought in my head over an over, I let the thoughts of a day let me wonder, wish, hope and think of many things. With each one of those it was a friend, one who was or at least for a minute felt like some kind of safe space. At least in my head he had been for so long! I guess in the end do any of us ever really want to think that this vision we had of something or even someone could be way off??? 

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10,000 Thoughts...

I could probably start this entry off in over a hundred different ways, with this many thoughts... NOT even sure how I don't just scream or curl up in a ball with tears. These thoughts are so fast and there is so many of them at that, and NONE stay in any order making it worse. I know that it has been, what 3 years really since I have written even one thought down? I'd like to understand why, but not even I do.

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Scrambled Thoughts...

In the last almost 3 months, I  have made alot of quick, sudden very unlike me but very needed choices. I won't lie- I don't know if I haven't really taken them in to process or If I am trying to just forget them an keep going. All I know is that every day for way to long I was waking up with this full blown anxiety pressure and fear, a feeling that seemed to consume me to no end. Then I would work all day to work past it, and by then the night would come, the night was to me like a fear of the monster in the closet to a child.. You knew NO real fear to worry of, but it could parylize you. I know for so long that Kody was that fear, along with that worry. This anxiety was just holding my life at a stand still, and when you can't explain to others the fear, the heart racing , the sweats, just these feelings that you really can't put into words to others makes it harder..

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Today..1 yr of divorce..???

Strange the way that some days, times, or things in life can just leave such an impact that they just become imprinted in your mind..marking a day you don't forget...

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The VOID...!!!!

Many times I have mentioned growing up and having this VOID.. Hoping that at times when something was going on I would find that void, and it would make that moment or choice make things clearer. They haven't, NOT even after years of chasing it, and I have chased to fill that void a lot. Besides counseling, I have just made these choices that I can look back an wonder how would that fill it??

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Things have to change soon...

The past several months, I wake up and always just feel I am in this life that just keep going round an round. They don't stop and head into another direction or stop for a brake, catch a breath to take it in an really see what needs to change, or plan how I do that, because it runs so fast with no stop.

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When will I listen to Myself??

I am lost, I don't even know where to start with these things anymore.... It is as tho everything just runs together, but I do know that I am tired of feeling so lost and an lonely. It's like when things start to happen it all just happens, the kids , the ex, the partner, family... all of it at once..

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Awake .. yet just so lost...

My body just wakes me up early am now, which is better then sleeping the day away and feeling horrible I did. Just the pain can get to be to much and then I am just bothered that I woke up to suffer, and the to top it normally it is not the pain that wakes me- it is the anxiety, the heart race, can't breath, worrying feeling. I don't know an can't put my finger on what it is that makes me wake like this everyday. I use to think it was the idea of Kody being homeless and being out in his suv Hot, or alone or worried what he had done last night,and if he even made it back to the suv..it's been over a week now an he has a room to rent, so you would think it would stop the worry, and yes it did the first 2 days...then the weeks of being sober again went right out the window an back to daily binging. Granted I worry least he's in safe place drinking , and heck he has even finally gotten the one rule of respect I have asked..DON'T call or text me once you decide to even buy that one beer. 

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Life changes & with NO warnings...

It has been over 9 months since I last wrote, and that was never the plan.. I had a goal to write every day, and even if short a little something at night. I wanted to catch for myself, my kids as well as anyone that any part of this could help. The thing is the day that I had waited for, and tried to prepare for Just in so many ways wasn't how I had seen it, none of it felt as I thought it would, and I have just become so very lost. With that my anxiety and depression has taken over so much that in many ways my children have shut down and built walls an in a way become these kids ... I hate to say I can NOT control, and that I do NOT know at all, they are in pain and not just anger with him but with me and that I can't blame them for so I let more go an over look the things I don't know how to help or control.

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New starts.. are beginning!!!

Today is only day 2 of my offical divorce with Kody. It is has been a long 3 yrs to our seperating, they have full of ups an downs, smiles an tears, and altho we tried to stay friends through it all I have to be honest I believe it has been partial been me still holding on in some way. Making today a vary hard day, because alot of reality has sunk in, besides the pain and hurt that I have been masking — hiding from others and Kody to say that I was ok and that I was strong, in the end of it I think the only one I was really hiding anything from was ME...

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Ready to FULLY start...

I woke up this am, in my daughters bed- who is 10.. not for the first time, I think I have been in here for over 7 months.I have known for a long time that the way I run this house is not how I would really like to run it,but sadly not all choices have been up to me. I am always under minded, and no matter what I am always gone against and it is upsetting because it is not how I think a marriage should be or how parenting should be. I want more family time, and I have always wanted more time as a couple, one who is married, and I never wanted to fail at either one... but the time has come that I realize that I am not failing. I have truly tried to be the best at all things in my life.. wife, mom and friend, and given that one common person has been against me, it has caused me to ( I need to remember the word is NOT failed, because I do NOT feel that I  have failed) distance myself and lose track of where I should have been for some time now..

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Hopefully , Your Sanctuary

I know that far too many of us have faced life's most challenging experiences. We understand the complexities of living with toxic individuals, the emotional toll it takes, and the strength it requires to keep going. Not saying every day is a bad one, but there are so many hard ones, the ones we hide from others ..with our FAKE smiles, just trying to juggle the good from the bad while trying to not let them blend, and keep ourselves going. This blog is dedicated to sharing insights, stories, and coping mechanisms to hopefully help each other navigate through our journey and share that we are not alone... Give support of how we deal, have gotten through it and hope we can all give just a little smile that isn't fake and keep going together.

About me

When I first started this blog, it was for my own personal daily struggles, as well as my joys. At the time I was a mom of 4 young kids, grandmother of 2, a wife of a narcissist, alcoholic addict who was verbally, mentally and very emotionally abusive.  My days where full of smiles, laughs, fear along with tears. I was a 40 year old women with a home that was full, crazy, and very overwhelming... I was a mother, daughter, sister, grandmother and wife just trying to figure out how to "SMILE" every day, make sure no one could see the pain, and exhausted self  I was batteling. I was fighting every day to SMILE and not let anyone realize what it is that I was hiding ... I couldn't seem weak, but I was more alone then anyone with such a full life could probably ever be imagined/ thought of as being.. and it was and has been for a very long time very lonely. Since starting this.. I have left my husband, found an amazing partner who my ex scared away, moved 1300 miles away to learn real betrayal- from someone else who has claimed to love me yet left me feeling lonely and more invalidated then I knew could ever be, then losing that man I ran from, the man who left me feeling unloved... to CANCER.

Now, I am a 47 year old mom of 4 grown kids ( 3 still living same roof with me, not seeming to be going anywhere soon) a grandmother of 3 .I am a women who is overwhelmed, struggling to figure out how I let go of so much, hoping for things to get better.. To becoming a ONLY (not single) parent, who had to recently see her children hold your childhood friend/ once husband-partner of 17 yrs hand until his very last breath from a hard battle of CANCER. I'm a women who while losing that man my children or even I will never have ( have to hate to love, have when things go bad an we need) I am a women who during those very same hours was being lied to, while her new partner/ the person who had claimed to love me/ had said life was going to finally be worth the hard times and I left l everything to be here with... was really in the middle of a 2nd life/ maybe even planning how to walk away, and all before my ex was actually even fully laid to peace. When I needed someone the "MOST/ MORE then EVER", I was losing two parts of my life. I had become a women who with years of disappointment started believing " I may just finally have it ALL"!! That is NOT the case..ONE small choice can change a path in so many ways..so please read how I got this far-alone and stay with me on this journey as I try and figure out the next chapter of many, and my way out of this lost, dark and lonely path....

 

 

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