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stretch13 (original poster member #26894) posted at 9:59 PM on Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
i opened a publishing company. i published my first author. things are coming up freakin' roses all over. the book is already for sale in The Beat Museum, Citylights Bookstore, and Books, Inc. in San Francisco. the author is based there though i've known him for years. these are halls of dreams for me, i never anticipated seeing my product on display in those hallowed halls. the owner of The Beat Museum LOVES the book. so do a lot of people. yay us!
i did it. i did something that was a dream i didn't know i had. i did something FT never could have handled or supported. i have an amazing H who is supporting me, sacrificing for me and cheering me on, just the way i did for FT all that time. it's so weird to receive it, i didn't even recognize what it was when it came. i kept thinking, "who could ever support a person so completely and be so consistently positive about every aspect of it?" i'm so grateful that i'm in awe, yet it seemed so easy for me to offer the same to FT. i don't remember FT expressing a lot of awe.
i'm having the time of my life, in a deep-down spiritual way. FT has shocked me with some new shenanigans, but they aren't really my problem. and i don't know why any of it would shock me. i'm tossing that new development in a D/S thread. mostly i don't think about that life much, my new beginnings take up too much of my brain space. as it should be, yay!
braggin'. that's me. i'm so fucking proud of myself. 
http://www.facebook.com/hardheadpress
http://www.amazon.com/Eli-Ely-Ezekiel-Tyrus/dp/0986042900/
http://hardheadpress.com/
life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone - j. kerouac
heartbroken_kk ( member #22722) posted at 10:03 PM on Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
FBW then 46, XWHNPDPAFTG the destroyer of my entire life. D-Day 1 '99, D-Day 2,3,4,5,6... '09-'11, D '15. I fell apart. I put myself back together. Forgiveness isn't required. I'm happy and healthy now, and MY new life is good.
AgainandAgain ( member #34835) posted at 10:10 PM on Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
Congratulations!! I'm so very happy for you
You should be very proud of yourself. Not a lot of people can do what you did but you did it. I can't imagine how over the moon you are at this moment. I'm also glad that you have a supportive H who stands there with you. It feels good, doesn't it?!?
Wishing you continued success with your publishing company!!!!!!!
persevere ( member #31468) posted at 10:37 PM on Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
That is awesome stretch!!! Congrats!!!
DDay:2011
Status: D 2011
Remarried to a kind and wonderful man - 2017
Above all, be the heroine, not the victim. - Nora Ephron
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K.
Crescita ( member #32616) posted at 11:21 PM on Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
That is so amazing. Great job!
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
caregiver9000 ( member #28622) posted at 11:30 PM on Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
I can't even imagine the leap of faith that took! And to succeed... whoooo!!! go you!!
Me: fortysomething, independent, happy,
XH "Stretch" (and Skew!) ;)
two kids, teens. Old enough I am truly NO CONTACT w/ NPD zebraduck
S 5/2010
D 12/2012
Kajem ( member #36134) posted at 11:53 PM on Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
I LOVE this....congratulations.
Enjoy the hell out of it.
I trust you is a better compliment than I love you, because you may not trust the person you love, but you can always love the person you trust. - UnknownRelationships are like sharing a book, it doesn't work if you're not on the same page.
tryingagain74 ( member #33698) posted at 12:00 AM on Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
That is AWESOME!
And, uh... where do I send my manuscript?
FBS; now happily liberated!
Two DS and One DD
It matters not how strait the gate,/How charged with punishments the scroll./I am the master of my fate:/I am the captain of my soul.--"Invictus," William Ernest Henley
notmeanymore ( member #9772) posted at 12:05 AM on Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
What a great success story! Congratulations!
And I'm with tryingagain... I've had this book I'm working on...
"Put the cuckoo back in the clock baby" - Four Brothers
Williesmom ( member #22870) posted at 12:07 AM on Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
You can stuff your sorries in a sack, mister. -George Costanza
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. - Madeleine Albright
wildbananas ( member #10552) posted at 12:15 AM on Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light. ~ Yogi Bhajan
NoTriangles ( member #35985) posted at 12:38 AM on Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
Me: Finding my SunlightHim: Traitor in my FoxholeLet go or get dragged.
Snapdragon ( member #4286) posted at 12:51 AM on Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
This is such a great post! Thank you so much for sharing it.
I'm reminded so much of how much I've done since divorce that my ex would NEVER have supported. Yet I supported him, sacrificed for him, in so many ways. But like you said, I didn't get any awe. It was just "to be expected" from me. But he couldn't do the same for me at all.
Good for you for taking the leap, going where your heart and talents took you. So many don't do it because of the lack of support - or downright sabotage - of our SO/spouse.
Keep us updated on your success. It inspires us all.
Divorced - recovered and hoping to help.
"We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again" ~Pink
Amazonia ( member #32810) posted at 12:53 AM on Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
"You yourself deserve your love and affection as much as anybody in the universe." -Buddha
"Let's face it, life is a crap shoot." -Sad in AZ
Sad in AZ ( member #24239) posted at 1:40 AM on Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
Brag away!! This is wonderful
You are important and you matter. Your feelings matter. Your voice matters. Your story matters. Your life matters. Always.
Me: FBS (no longer betrayed nor a spouse)-63
D-day: 2007 (two years before finding SI)
S: 6/2010; D: 3/2011
FaithFool ( member #20150) posted at 2:28 AM on Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
Can we get a SQUEEEEEEEEE!?
DDay: June 15, 2008
Mistakenly married Mr. Superfreak
20 years of OWs, WTF?
Divorced Dec 26, 2011
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget
to sing in the lifeboats". -- Voltaire
stretch13 (original poster member #26894) posted at 3:01 AM on Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
you got my squeeeeeee!!!!
and pm me if you've got something to send me. i make no promises and i have to be picky, but i'm looking for the next one
http://www.facebook.com/hardheadpress
http://www.amazon.com/Eli-Ely-Ezekiel-Tyrus/dp/0986042900/
http://hardheadpress.com/
life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone - j. kerouac
newlysingle ( member #38735) posted at 4:41 AM on Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
That is awesome. Congratulations! I am so excited for you.
BW - Me (40)
XWH -The Gnat
"Engaged" to OW, but the wedding appears to be indefinitely postponed.
M for 8 years, together for 10
1 DD (8), 1 DS (3)
Dday 3/13
Happily Divorced 9/20/13
asurvivor ( member #32368) posted at 4:57 AM on Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
Huge Congrats. As a San Franciscan I totally get the significance of the City Lights thing...extremely cool.
I've wiped the shit off. It can be wiped off you know.
Bluebird26 ( member #36445) posted at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
What a great NB story. Congratulations.
Me: BW
Best thing I gained in my divorce - my freedom.
Life's good.
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