It's going good! We quickly discovered the reason why people avoid home-based businesses. Okay that's not entirely true, let's say a home-based business where you need to have interaction with the public. There that's better. Making the move to commercial property was the best thing we could have done. It came at the right time, there goes God opening those doors again! We would have definitely been doomed if we had not decided to make that move. Between her and I, we played devil's advocate a lot. She would be more optimistic and I would be more pessimistic. Together we usually hit it right on the head.

The building we were in had a very nice shop in the front and also a big tremendous room/work area in the back. We did pay for two different stores, if you will. The nice thing about the rear room was that it led right out to the back parking area and that the back parking area is where I did all my vehicle lettering. I was really high on life, having endeavored in something totally totally different than my path was in the past,, I actually was having my cake and eating it too.

I was always a whiz with computers. I don't mean to brag here, and I really don't mean top-of-the-line kind of whiz, but very good in computer operation and knowledge as well as utilizing all different types of software. I was also good at networking and set up of course which is a necessary evil when having your own business.

Workdays were long. Because we wanted them to be. We enjoyed going into work early and we enjoyed being there and staying late. I've got a laugh just at this very moment because, skipping ahead to 2011, my partner and ex girlfriend had a totally different outlook and attitude towards business. In the beginning she was anxious, hungry, driven. In the end, I remember her turning customers away just because she couldn't be bothered talking to them! I remember confronting her about it and she became all irate. She was also very jealous and envious of me, saying on many different instances how I would get all the credit for being such a big part of the business. In response to that I told her on many occasions that my opinion I don't care who gets the credit or the pat on the back, as long as the work is getting done properly and the customers are happy and satisfied, what more did we need? I don't think she could understand that I was not seeking any kind of fame. It found me naturally because I was good with people and still am today. I was always kind with people and I would bend over backwards to give them what they needed and more. I'm just that kind of person. Well during 2010, my partner and ex-girlfriend(that is about when she became the X) became interested in changing her situation with me. In her efforts to try and do stock trading, she had met somebody online that grabbed her fancy. At the time I was 55 or 54, she was 10 years younger than me, and the gentleman that she became interested in was in his mid-70s. Go figure that one.

Well, in a very similar situation to what is going on with me now, our relationship turned to shit. She was throwing 17 years away. To make a long story short, I blamed myself left and right and after all the grieving was done I decided to make myself better than I've ever been. That was my most serious jolt for joining the gym here. Thinking everything was my fault, I really did not know which one thing or many things was my fault. So by making myself better, somehow I would fix anything that might have been wrong or not right. We had money and a place to live at that time, unlike my situation right now.

We had to still work together because we had a business, but we also had to figure out what to do with that business. We had talks many many times, but life got in the way and we continued working just the same. After several months I came to an awakening! Everything that happened was not my fault. Although a relationship is 50-50, the problems were balanced unfairly. I had to come to this ugly realization before I could get well. And I did get well.

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