Originally Posted by
dandylion 
:dayLiz...perhaps you could take the bull by the horns....and be honest with him about how you feel---rather than go along to get along and then resenting the hel* out of it. I'm sure that you could have found at least one person from your alanon group or the tennis crowd or the homeschooling crowd with which to celebrate your birthday.
dandylion
P.S. Happy Birthday
Thank you! I know I could have found others to hang with if I had asked. Unfortunately, I'm too nice. I didn't want to exclude my AH nor my son from any plans, nor did I want to put myself in a situation where I'd be uncomfortable anyway. I am going to dinner with a friend next week. It's not birthday related but it will be nice to catch up with her. AH doesn't know many of the tennis people or Al Anon folks. I did call a few friends but they were busy this weekend with Mother's Day events or family stuff, which happens a lot around my birthday. I was actually born on Mother's Day in 1970!
I'll get past this depression, I do every year and eventually it passes.