-You start seriously thinking about and / or planning to take a college class.
-You buy sexy underwear so that you know it’s underneath your trademark jeans and a tee shirt.
-You purchase tee shirts with smart ass sayings on them. Like ‘I Fuck on the First Date’, ‘Single and Looking’, ‘Do you know what your problem is?? You’re stupid.’ and ‘Out of Your League’.
-You wear the meanest ones to places you know he will be. Or just the tightest ones.
-You have your hair colored…back to the way it used to be when you started dating.
-You laugh to yourself when he sees it because you know he prefers it this way, but you don’t care.
-You go to bed with too much lotion on your feet.
-You don’t have to brush your teeth right away because there’s no one to impress with your breath.
-You learn that you are physically stronger and more capable then you had given yourself credit for in a long time.
-You begin to take an interest in things you had long forgotten…like beading, interviewing famous authors, window shopping, reading 5 books at a time, chick flicks, sunshine, writing, talking to your cat.
-You surprise yourself by really believing that you can do it all alone.
When did you realize that you were out of misery and in recovery?
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