The ending of my alcoholic marriage was anything but happy.
The new beginning it allowed me and my children is, though.
I'd be lying if I say once the A was out of the picture it's all rainbows and ponies.
It's not.
But it's LIFE. It's life in all its beautiful and painful moments, life with rainy Tuesdays with a leaking roof and fishsticks for dinner and gorgeous sunsets on the way home from work when the kids are singing along to the radio in the back seat. It's LIFE the way it is for "normal" people. Plus the internal cleanup work you have to do after X years with an alcoholic.
Trust? I do think you're onto something. Like Firesprite said in another post (I'm so glad that post was bumped today):
Trust is not really about the other person, trust has to start inside you... trust means trusting yourself to be OK no matter what anyone around you does or doesn't do. Knowing, deep down, that you will always be able to handle what comes your way no matter how difficult things seem at times.