P2YL?

P2YL is my own personal nickname for the original title of this blog: Part 2 Of Your (Love?) Life.

Part 2 is not necessarily an age thing...it can be a decisive event which effectively cuts your life into a ‘before’ and an ‘after’. For me, it was being in my late thirties – content, settled – and naively seeing the future as likely to be a continuation of the enjoyable and uncomplicated same.

Then life changed. I thought all chance of happiness had gone.

Cut to the present. That was twenty years ago and now I look back and marvel at how someone who considers herself no great shakes could still manage to find something within herself that enabled that change to happen. Sorry if this sounds a bit New Age and vague. I’ll join the dots in a more down-to-earth way later.

But this made me wonder: if the coping/growing/developing strategies which I used could be useful to others in the same place who are sensing a journey lies ahead?

So, many years later, I have delved into the diary I kept at the time and written up some of the exact words with some new reflections, and always with the underlying message that I came through it intact and did find new happiness and fulfilment.

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