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It's not everyone who can call both world leaders and rock stars friends, but it's all part of a bigger goal for economist Jeffrey Sachs, and the purpose could not be more serious. He's the subject of this week's One on 1 with Budd Mishkin.
He has given economic advice to governments all over the world and he is trying to end extreme poverty in Africa in our lifetime. Big issues; bold projects, and yet, it's his wife who balances the books in his house.
"Are you kidding? We need serious fiscal responsibility!" says Sachs.
Jeffrey Sachs lives on the upper west side and works at Columbia University as an economics professor and director of the Earth Institute. But as special advisor first to Kofi Annan and now to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, he really lives in the global village.
"Usually by the time that I head off to work at Columbia in the morning I've already been engaged somehow with half of dozen countries in some challenge," says Sachs.
And that's when he's home. In one week in March, he met with government officials in China, Japan and Korea, and he often visits African villages as part of his UN work.
Even at home, Sachs connects the most mundane of daily activities — getting water for a hot cup of coffee — with Africa.
"I think, OK that's eight hours of work for an African woman that I was able to accomplish in the last 30 seconds," says Sachs.
Sachs is so busy that his wife Sonia, who is a pediatrician, has often joked that she is a happily married single mother of three. But Sachs says he hasn't had to sacrifice to pursue his passion, because his wife and three kids often travel with him.
"That's the only way, by the way, I could ever do this," says Sachs. "It would be impossible otherwise. I'm not a kind of loner who is ready to go off for weeks or months away from family. I could never do this is somehow this wasn't compatible with our family life."
For the last decade, Sachs has been known as the economist who is arguably the most prominent face in the fight against extreme poverty in Africa. He first visited the continent in 1995.
"You see a child die for the first time, it's unbelievable. That's not something that I expected growing up that I would ever experience. Death so much in one's face," says Sachs.
He argues that it's necessary to address the problems — anti-malarial bed nets, medicine, clean water, infrastructure, health clinics — and not just some of them, to get African nations to a place where they can help themselves.
Sachs's appeal extends from journalists and public officials, as the letters on his office wall attest, to rock stars and celebrities. That cachet helps the professor to spread the word in a different type of classroom, as he did at an event with musician John Legend at Columbia.
"Would it be heroic for us to give one percent of our income, for example, to the solution of global poverty? Because that would be more than enough, paradoxically, but we don't even do a fifth of that," says Sachs.
His critics charge that his policies are na•ve, don't address the problem of corruption and that many newly developed countries succeed without a great deal of foreign aid.
Sachs says with a project this big, some criticism is natural.
But he wonders: have the critics done their homework, and do they know the situation on the ground?
"Sometimes it's so far off base and, if I could put it this way, sometimes so academic, because it doesn't have any of the real feel of the ground, of the circumstances, of the actual forces at play that isn't that very helpful," says Sachs.
As an economist, Sachs often has to predict how his policies will affect the governments he advises. But one prediction he made to his wife could not have been more off.
"Once my dissertation was done things will slow down a bit and then I said maybe after I get tenure things will slow down a bit and maybe after the Bolivian hyperinflation is brought under control, I promise things will· oh but gotta go to Poland, but things will slow down a bit. And after a while she said, Îforget it!'" says Sachs.
Slow down? Certainly not at Harvard, where he earned his Bachelor's, Master's, PhD and became a full professor by the age of 29. Sachs enjoyed teaching, but he sensed there was something else out there.
"I certainly was always intent on finding ways to bridge a world of thinking and ideas with the world of action," says Sachs.
The seeds of his latest book, "Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet" were planted at a Harvard seminar in 1985, when Sachs made a suggestion on hyperinflation in Bolivia.
"Somebody piped up from the back of the room, ÎHey, if you think you know what to do, why don't you come?' And I kind of laughed and then they pressed the point. I had to go home and look up on the map where exactly Bolivia was," says Sachs.
A few weeks later, he was in Bolivia. It led to work with other governments in Latin America. And then to Poland, where he offered proposals to a high government official on the transition from communism to a market economy.
"My colleague and I said, ÎOK, we're going back tomorrow and we will write up something and we will send it to you in a week or two,'" recalls Sachs. "'No! Tomorrow morning,' he said. I was like, ÎWhat?' He said, ÎI need it for Lech Walesa tomorrow morning!'"
The next morning, Lech Walesa had the proposal.
Sachs' reputation for helping governments brought him to Moscow in the early '90s, and he was in the room when Boris Yeltsin made an historic announcement.
"'I've been in a meeting next room with the leaders of the Soviet army and I can tell you the Soviet Union is over.' I was there hearing that from him across the table and so that was kind of unforgettable life moment," says Sachs.
But Sachs received a lot of criticism for his economic advice to Russia. Critics charged that the changes were too drastic.
Sachs counters that the United States didn't follow his recommendation to give short term financial support to strengthen young Democratic institutions and the troubled economy of a vast country spread out over 11 times zones, spun out of control.
"The winds blowing, the controversy swirling, the collapse of the old system — it felt like being in the middle of the hurricane," says Sachs.
For the last decade, his primary focus has been Africa.
In his work with the UN and the Millennium Project, he has stated a goal to end extreme poverty by the year 2025.
Sachs is a persuasive force with some powerful friends.
He doesn't doubt that he has the right answers — bed nets to fight malaria, medicines, mechanisms for clean water, and other ideas. But can he persuade enough people to make this everyone's priority?
"Of course, there are doubts and uncertainties, but not the kind that gnaw at me to say stop doing this, but just the uncertainties of life, of where is the world heading and can we find the way to make good on what we can do?" says Sachs.
It's an unusual existence for an economist: Meetings with Pope John Paul II and leaders around the world, hearing his name called at rock concerts, and perhaps most importantly, connecting with people across culture, race, language, everything.
"In a village where you've been able to see that there are no barriers to making the connection that makes your own life have value and more valuable and being able to help someone else, it's all a treasure. It's amazing," says Sachs.
— Budd Mishkin
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The Access and Affordability Monitoring Project analyzes health care coverage and cost problems in Massachusetts.
Conceiving an Elephant but Giving Birth to a Mouse, WBUR-FM Commentary on Massachusetts Efforts to Insure More People , 20 March 2006, 3 pages. You can listen to the Commentary at http://realserver.bu.edu:8080/ramgen/w/b/wbur/wburnews/2006/me_0320_2.rm
Cape Care: Winning Health Care for All and Cost Containment on Cape Cod, 11 March 2006, 92 pages.
Health Care for All in Massachusetts Requires Cost Control, 3 March 2006, 74 pages
2001-2005 (29 items):
Health Care Myths, Realities (about the current Massachusetts health reform debates), op-ed, Boston Globe, 5 November 2005, 1 page.
Identifying and Stabilizing All Needed Massachusetts Hospitals, Testimony on H. 2666, Public Health Committee, Massachusetts Legislature, 2 November 2005, 4 pages.
Testimony on S. 375, Prescription Drug Importing, with recommendations to establish a single Rx buyer for Massachusetts, written (10 pages) and verbal testimony, 24 October 2005.
Getting Ready to Address Massachusetts Health Care Realities, Briefing to Caucus of Women Legislators, 21 September 2005, 12 pages.
Massachusetts Should Pool Prescription Drug Purchasing to Win Lower Prices, Testimony on H.2683, 21 September 2005, 2 pages.
Why Are Massachusetts Health Care Costs Soaring, and Can Anything Be Done About It? Municipal Advocate, Summer 2005, 7 pages.
Uninsured in Massachusetts Now Highest in 7 Years, 30 August 2005, 2 pages.
$1 Billion a Week is Enough to Finance Health Care for All in Massachusetts, Testimony (73 pages) presented to the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, Massachusetts State House, 20 July 2005, along with Summary plus Exhibits.
Briefing for Legislators on Universal Coverage, Massachusetts State House, 15 June 2005, 12 pages.
The Key to High Quality Healthcare, Boston Globe, 15 June 2005 1 page.
Sustaining Massachusetts Health Care, 26 May 2005, Women in Health Care Management, 113 pages.
A Few Massachusetts Health Care Realities, 2005 Edition, 3 August 2005, 2 pages.
Legislative Briefing on Prescription Drug Reform, State House, Boston, 23 November 2004, 4 pages.
Shaping Health Care Technology We can Afford for Massachusetts, Massachusetts Association of Health Plans' Second Annual Conference, 21 November 2003, 40 pages.
Fixing Our Broken Health Care System Requires Both Incremental and Comprehensive Change, 25 October 2003, 12 pages.
Looming Massachusetts Meltdown--Testimony on Universal Health Care, 8 October 2003, Testimony (12 pages) and Summary.
Long-term Care in Massachusetts--Problems, Causes, and Solutions, Winchester Council on Aging, 15 March 2003, 24 pages.
Crashing through the Windshield: Massachusetts Health Care in the Downturn--Health Care Will Consume 18 Percent of Personal Income in 2002, 6 August 2002, 6 pages.
The Jaws Open: Massachusetts Health Care Stumbles into Another Dangerous Decade, New England Economic Project, Westborough, 29 May 2002, 46 pages.
Protecting Needed Hospital Capacity in Massachusetts, presented at the annual meeting of the Middlesex County Central District, Massachusetts Medical Society, Emerson Hospital, Concord, 30 April 2002, 40 pages.
Too Many Local Hospitals on Life Support: With number of beds halved since 1980, state should alter its closings policy, Boston Globe Focus, 3 March 2002, 3 pages.
Too Many Local Hospitals on Life Support, Boston Globe, 3 March 2002, 2 pages.
Press release: Gov. Swift Should Declare a Public Health Emergency to Prevent Waltham Hospital's Closing, 11 February 2002, 2 pages.
Waltham Hospital's Closing Constitutes a Public Health Emergency--DPH hearing testimony, 11 February 2002, 21 pages.
Massachusetts Should Preserve Each Hospital Needed to Protect the Health of Our People, 5 February 2002, 21 pages.
Minority Report to the Massachusetts Health Care Task Force: Hospital Stabilization, Contingency Planning, and Cooperation Are Needed, 28 January 2002 (Alan Sager, member of Task Force's Financial Working Group), 4 pages.
Negotiating a Peace Treaty for Massachusetts Health Care, 17 November 2001, Text (9 pages) and Exhibits.
We Can Win Affordable Medications for All, 17 April 2001, 9 pages.
A Better Deal for Our Health Care Dollars, 2 April 2001, 15 pages.
1996--2000 (12 items):
Financially Distressed Massachusetts Hospitals Need Targeted Relief, Not an Across-the-board Medicaid Hike, 19 Dec. 2000, 51 pages.
Can Afford Health Care for All, 2
Nov. 2000 (Co-authored with
Solutions for Progress)
Press Release, 1 page.
Summary, 10 pages.
Report, with Summary and Appendices I and II , 104 pages.
Appendix III B – Calculations and Notes, 32 pages.
The World's Most Expensive Health Care, 2 Oct. 2000
Winning Health Care for All on Martha's Vineyard, 25 April 2000, 14 pages.
How Can We Fix Harvard Pilgrim's Problems without Making Ours Worse? 18 February 2000, 22 pages.
Massachusetts Hospital Costs per Person Have Risen Much Faster than the National Average, 1997-1998, 15 December 1999, 20 pages.
Putting the Public Back into Public Health, 28 October 1999, 15 pages.
Testimony on Universal Health Care--Health Care for All Costs Less, 27 April 1999, 11 pages.
More Care at Less Cost, Boston Globe, 25 April 1999, 2 pages.
All the Money We Need, 23 January 1999, 26 pages
Solutions for Progress and AAMP, Universal Comprehensive Coverage: A Report to the Massachusetts Medical Society, December 1998, 60 pages.
The Growing Concentration of Hospital Care in Worcester County, 6 February 1998, 30 pages.
Before It's Too Late: Why Hospital Closings Are a Problem, Not a Solution, 2nd Edition, 2 June 1997, 97 pages.
Imprudent, Impatient, and Anti-patient: Are Hospitals Closing Too Fast and for Insufficient Reason, Boston Sunday Globe, Focus, 27 April 1997, 4 pages.
1991--1995 (7 items):
750,000 Citizens of Massachusetts Lack Health Insurance, 28 November 1995. Part 1 (44 pages) and Part 2 (10 pages).
State's Uninsured Population Nearly Doubled in Six Years, Testimony to Health Care Committee, 4 April 1995, 13 pages.
Nine Lessons for National Health Reform from the Failure of the 1988 Massachusetts Universal Health Care Law, American Public Health Association, 26 October 1993, 12 pages.
Medicaid Cuts--A Shot in the Foot, 25 May 1991, 1 page.
Shooting Ourselves in the Foot: Cutting Medicaid Saves State Government Very Little Money but Badly Hurts the Massachusetts Economy, 6 May 1991, 16 pages.
The World's Most Expensive Hospitals, 1 February 1991, 71 pages.
Testimony Opposing the Relocation of St. Margaret's Hospital from Dorchester to Brighton, 22 February 1990, 4 pages.
1988--1990 (6 items):
Spending on Massachusetts Hospitals versus Improving Access: Talk and Action, Implementing the chapter 23 Massachusetts Health Security law, 30 August 1989, 4 pages.
Hospital Costs in Massachusetts, 18 August 1989, 2 pages.
Promise and Performance, Analysis of the 1988 Massachusetts Universal Health Care Law, 9 Apr. 1989, 45 pages.
Universal Health Insurance in Massachusetts--Origins and Practicality, Health Policy Symposium, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 21 October 1988, 23 pages.
Richard Knox, "Threat of Doctor Shortage Disputed, " Boston Globe 12 September 1988.,1 page.
The Sky is Falling: The Massachusetts Medical Society Reports on the "Physician Shortage," 12 September 1988, 37 pages.
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Alvin \a-lvin, al-vin\ as a boy's name is pronounced AL-vin. It is of Old English origin, and the meaning of Alvin is "elf or magical being, friend". From Aelfwine and also possibly means "precious friend". Radio characters Alvin and the Chipmunks have given the name an irresistably comical cast, however. Choreographer Alvin Ailey.
Alvin has 19 variant forms: Ailwyn, Al, Aloin, Aluin, Aluino, Alva, Alvan, Alven, Alvie, Alvy, Alvyn, Alwin, Alwyn, Alwynn, Aylwin, Elvin, Elwin, Elwyn and Elwynn.
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Our friends at Market News International have just run a story saying that the ECB does not want the euro over 1.5000 in the medium-term and that EUR strength could throttle the European recovery. They plan to raise their concerns at next week's G20 meeting, the report says.
- The ECB has little room to impact EUR/US with monetary policy, the story says.
- Trichet hopes that the US will follow-up words with action on the strong dollar policy.
- EU leaders are going to China before year-end to urge Beijing to accept a stronger Yuan.
- The ECB is said to be wary of intervention without participation from the US and China.
The ECB has shown only moderate concern in its public utterances to date, but its sounds like they are working behind the scenes to engineer a weaker euro. It remains to be seen if they get help from the US, though the Fed may be doing its part by preparing the market for the removal of the phrase "for an extended time" from its next communique.
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If the kiss test fails, tell him to go lick an ashtray.
How can you possibly respect a person who can only think of one way to spell a word? - Andrew Jackson (paraphrased)
You also might mention that, if his negative attitude hasn't already driven you back to smoking, nothing will.
Sorry, feeling a little sarcastic today. Gotta go to work now.
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How can you possibly respect a person who can only think of one way to spell a word? - Andrew Jackson (paraphrased)
I hate when people try and compare down to the last nickel and dime when making this switch.
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"Revolution is political, rebellion is religious. Revolution means a social phenomenon; rebellion is meditative. This has to be understood, this distinction. It is very significant. And if you miss it, you will miss the very meaning of the life of Jesus, because he is a rebel – he is not a revolutionary. Neither is Buddha a revolutionary, nor Lao Tzu. Manu is revolutionary, Marx is revolutionary, Mao is revolutionary, but not Jesus, not Krishna, not Buddha. They are rebels.
"A revolution is a planning. A revolution thinks of the future; a rebellion is herenow. Revolution is utopian – a dream, somewhere in the future, the golden age, the utopia, the paradise. Rebellion is to live it here and now. To be rebellious means to be transformed totally.
"In revolution, and in the ideology of revolution, you try to change the others, you try to change the scene. In rebellion, you change yourself and the scene changes by itself, of its own accord, because your vision is different. You have different eyes to look with.
"Rebellion is spontaneous. It has nothing to do with any ideology. Rebellion is non-ideological. Rebellion is like love; you don't think about it; you cannot think about it. Either you live it or you don't live it; either it is there or it is not there. Rebellion is a happening. If you are ready, you start living a totally different life: the life of authenticity, the life of innerness, the life of God, or whatsoever you would like to call it.
"Jesus is a rebel, but even his followers misunderstood him – they thought he was a revolutionary; they organized. Then Christ disappeared, and Christianity was left behind. Christianity is the corpse, the corpse of Christ.
"Christianity is again the same establishment against whom Jesus was rebellious. Christianity belongs to the same priests who crucified Jesus. Now the temple has moved. It is not in Jerusalem, it is in the Vatican; but it is the same temple. The money-changers have changed, but the money-changing is the same. The establishment is now owned by other people, by other names, in other names, but the establishment is the same. If Jesus comes back, and goes to the Vatican, he will again do the same thing."
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We open up with the 15 new Survivors on a boat as Jeff Probst pulls up in another boat and starts talking about the dangers of Survivor. Soon another boat pulls up with Russell, Penner and Michael. The tribes are divided up and given 60 seconds to grab what they can from the boat and get in their rafts. There are chickens, fruits and vegetables and tools. Jeff Kent twisted his knee jumping off the boat and says he thinks he may have torn his MCL. He's trying to keep it from the others and says he played hurt his whole career.
The tribes hit their beaches and Russell is already taking over his tribe even though he repeatedly says he doesn't want to be a leader. His tribe is already annoyed with him and talking of voting him off once he helps them get a shelter built and teaches them what he knows. Over at the other camp Penner seems to be fitting in well. He is so happy to be playing for a third time and got choked up talking about it. Michael Skupin is already in an alliance with two girls and a guy (I'll learn all the names sooner or later!). Skupin says you have to flow with the game and if they are moving fast then he has to also. So far it looks like two of the three returnees could stick around for a while.
One of the castaways has already recognized Jeff Kent as a MLB star but hasn't said anything yet. He seems really useful around camp, doing a lot of work and getting along with people better than he did on the San Francisco Giants. Over at Russell's tribe, Zane is making alliances with everyone then makes the mistake of telling Malcom and Russell that he is in alliances with everyone. Malcom doesn't like that at all since he was the last person Zane came to. Nobody except Skupin has recognized Lisa Whelchel and he is keeping her secret for now. Lisa seems like a really nice and genuine person but isn't really fitting in with the younger girls. Michael hopes he can keep her around though.
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|Thu, 07-05-2012 - 12:11pm
In a few weeks, I'll be married for 3 years. No kids together, just a dog. Since the beginning of our marriage, things were rocky and we had issues. Many were about communication or lack of it really. Things were said and done that are hard for me to just forget. On top of that, I think a mirror was put in my face and I saw things about my H that were very hard (and still are) for me to accept...that he's very childish/immature, very needy, etc. So it was a combination of things that led to our problems. I decided to go back to my parents house for a separation in October 2011. Now we're in July and I still can't push myself one way or the other to either divorce or go back to try again. He claims that in the past few months of being on his own, he's made a turn around, has a new philosophy on marriage and life in general and knows what we did wrong and is confident we can fix it. He's been waiting for me all this time when really, he could have just went to go meet other women or given up all together. Part of me knows though too he's holding onto our marriage SO tightly bc of his insecurities, fear of being alone and of starting over. He'd never say or admit to that but he doesn't get that deep into himself. I know him better than he knows himself- if you know what I mean,
I've been going to therapy for the entire time we've been married too to try to work things out for myself. Honestly, I started questioning my decision and trying to figure out what to do only about 2 months into our marriage when we got a puppy together and I was seeing things that would scare me about him being a parent. Therapy has helped me in many ways but then in others, I'm still here in the same place...lol. My mind is so tired of thinking...feel like that's all I've been doing for years.
I was ready to throw in the towel but then hearing him say his newly found attitude has me wondering how different it would be. My therapist says the only way I'll know is to move back IN with him...that'll get me unstuck bc I'll be able to see how things would be (if different at all) and see how I feel. As of right now, I had agreed to move back in a few weeks. But from that point of agreeing, I now find myself getting tense when he brings it up. Like my stomach drops. Could be the comforts of being "home" where I grew up I suppose...could be that the thought of going back scares me bc there are nothing but bad memories there and it's something I need to work through and push myself...OR it could just be ME and my voice inside saying that's not what I want but I'm not even listening to it. I just don't know
|Tue, 08-07-2012 - 9:07pm
I was married for 4 years first time around. I was only 20 when we tied the knot, and naturally I thought I knew everything.
There was one thing which prompted me to finally make a decision. It was when he pointed out that my indecision about the future of the marriage was hurting him. I realised that it was unfair to leave him in limbo and I made a decision to go then and there. Turns out that that his comment wasn't designed to prompt me into leaving, but nonetheless, that was the end effect.
|Wed, 08-08-2012 - 11:21am
I understand that. I hear that too and SEE it for myself...how painful and hard this is for him. He truly is trying and hanging on to any little thing he can. But I just can't continue to do to the both of us. I actually heard somewhere that having your spouse go through ambivalence and not knowing where the relationship is going is a form of "abuse". I don't know that I'd necessarily agree with using that particular word, but I can see how it can really effect the person.
I think I just need to shift my thoughts of how much ending it is going to hurt him to how much being in THIS state is hurting him. I need to see more of the "good" in it. Easier said than done..lol
|Wed, 08-08-2012 - 5:00pm
|Wed, 08-08-2012 - 9:29pm
Of course it's not going to be easy. It wasn't for me. Yes, I'd emotionally checked out long before I left (and yes, I left him, I moved out), but there's still the sadness that a marriage and family are over. But try to think of all you two will be gaining. You'll both be free to pursue a happy life, either with someone you want to be with or loving the single life. Carrying on because of guilt will not help either of you, please try to remember that.
|Thu, 08-09-2012 - 9:40pm
I'll be honest- what you said about being ruined about marrying again did freak me out a bit..lol. I know ur just being honest though and I appeeciate it. Im scared I'll feel the same way.
I am trying to think of the good. I know it's what's best for the both of us. I don't know what it's going to take for me to do the deed though. I'm thinking of it in my head and trying to plan it out but my head is a mess. I don't know what to do to push myself to do it.
|Fri, 08-10-2012 - 1:59pm
It wasn't "easy" for me to tell my husband I was leaving him. But lucky for me, one of my friends gave me a kick in the butt. She told me (in a very loving way, if you can imagine it) that either I divorce my husband or I shut up and quit complaining. Because if all I did was complain yet refuse to do anything about the situation, she didn't want to hear it anymore.
Please don't take those words as literally coming from me...I think it's great that you are posting on here to discuss your thoughts and feelings. I'm just relating that story because it was what I needed at the time, and for me, my friend was 100% right. I filed for divorce the following week.
Also, I'm actually happy being unmarried. It's not like I'd just love to meet someone else and get married again, because I truly don't care about being married. In fact, I didn't want to get married the first time...my husband gave me an ultimatum ("marry me or we're breaking up"). So to say I'm "ruined" for marriage isn't really accurate, it's just not something I feel I want any time soon or possibly ever again.
Anyway...you just have to ask yourself, do you want the rest of your life to be exactly as it is now? Do you want to put him (and you) through this forever?
|Fri, 08-10-2012 - 2:55pm
You are right about that one?? I had a friend who kept complaining about her boyfriend who was married and he wouldnt leave his wife and house.. All she did was complain about him for three years.. I said either break up or stay with him and stop complaining to me. I cant take it anymore..
In the end I had to break off my friendship with her because I couldnt take her constant back and forth with this guy.
I have no idea what happened but I dont care.. I am done with that toxic situation doctors orders..
|Fri, 08-10-2012 - 4:53pm
Honestly, I feel like the decision HAS already been made. I'm really just questioning HOW I am actually going to tell him. I mean in his eyes, we've been dating for the past few months and things have been going well. We've been enjoying each other's company and having fun. He wants to move forward, have me move back in, so we can put all these new discoveries and findings he's made to work. So to me, it's like how am I going to come out and say "hey- surprise, I'm not moving back and want a divorce." Just like that? Just seems so harsh. But I guess no way I tell him or no situation is going to make it "better" for him.
I feel it's only right to tell him in person. If I tell him I need to talk to him when I come over, he's going to know what it is, start asking a bunch of questions and eventually it's going to come out on the phone! Just triying to have the best possible scenario.
I understand your feelings, stillstanding. And again I appreciate you taking the time to share your story with me.
|Fri, 08-10-2012 - 6:00pm
Of course, your husband will probably protest, ask why, possibly beg you not to divorce him, to give him another chance, etc., and yes, that will be hard. You'll probably feel like the meanest woman alive, but that doesn't mean you're wrong. I cried after I told my husband, and so did he, but it didn't change the fact that I had made my decision and was sticking with it. In other words, it's ok to cry, feel sad, feel mean, whatever, but your decision is still the right one for you, and eventually for him too.
I do feel for you because even though we are the dumpers rather than the dumpees, that doesn't mean we feel fantastic about leaving our husbands. But still, since it's the right thing to do in order for all of us to be able to pursue happy lives and relationships, we kind of just need to push through it. Good luck & keep us posted please.


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