One of the realities you face living on the Gulf Coast of Texas is hurricanes. With hurricanes and tornadoes, you face evacuations.
One of the lessons I’ve learned with going through evacuations is sorting out what baggage to take and what to leave. I suspect this is what’s behind having a prepared ‘go bag’.
Picking up and leaving where you live on short notice shakes up your life. You learn about priorities from the trial and error experiences you go through.
Things I thought were important I learn are not the be all I thought they were. Evacuations have way of force sorting my priorities. Whether or not I thought I could live without it, I learn by experience what I can and can’t live without.
The evacuations I’ve been through include several hurricanes, wildfires and flash floods along with home repair emergencies. Although there’s many reasons for sudden departures, you still face choices about what baggage to take.
From those experiences of sudden departures are lessons that apply to relationships. Affairs bring their own sudden departures along with being in and out of relationships.
Letting go is never easy. Although it’s not easy, it’s necessary.
Letting go includes releasing physical and emotional attachments. Once you make the decision of letting go, you’ll need to look forward rather than looking back. Each time you look back, you re-ignite the old emotional attachments.
One of the Biblical examples of this was Lot’s wife, who looked back, and found that it carried consequences of being turned to salt.
Looking back is a way of holding onto those old attachments. Although you don’t see the physical connection, you certainly feel the pull of it.
This is critical in ending affairs and damaging relationships. Letting go includes not looking back. This means when the affair is over, it’s over. It also means when you old marriage is over, any thoughts of going back to your ex have to be let go of as well.
If letting go remains a problem, you’ll want to consider the video “Help for the Cheater: Starting the Road to Recovery”. The video covers the critical letting go of the affair.
The video is another one of the resources available to you at the Restored Lifestyle support community with monthly membership.
The lessons from letting go will help you in many other areas of life and relationships.
Best Regards,
Jeff
