Editor's note: This entry was written by NSA Member Lesle - this was in response to an online discussion as to what to do about scrapbook albums which contain a significant other who is no longer a part of your life. We've all been there!
My husband and I have been having problems for the last year and a half. Last winter, I kinda felt like there might be hope, so I rushed to do my wedding album. I wanted something to look at and, I don't know, I thought it might inspire us to try harder.
Well, things didn't work out, and we've been separated about 5 months now. I'm glad I did the album last winter, because I really don't think I could have done it at the stage I'm at now.
He is an important part of my life, helped mold me into the person I am, my first husband, father of my children, so I could never "make him disappear". But I feel like the pages aren't truthful now, I feel like they are a sham.
So my solution is to doodle on the sheet protectors. My thoughts and feelings about how things went, how things went wrong, and most definitely adding a few devil horns and pointy goatees. It will be more enjoyable for me to look at, yet I won't be ruining the pages that I put so much effort into.
I guess what I'm saying is, life isn't perfect and we can't change the past, but it is important to remember it so we better understand where we came from and what we have become.
Do you have any suggestions which you would suggest to others in this situation?
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