I have pushed those negatives away - I'm more prone to be a positive thinker than a negative one. I think that's why this shocked me so much - I'm not used to the negative vibes being pushed on me and it hurt and stunned me.
People have called me a "Pollyanna" and thought I was rather flip about negative stuff, but I'm not that - I'm a realist, but I prefer to be happy than the opposite.
We "bounce back" my Bob & I, rather well, and we're resourceful. I was just saying (after the move the other day) that even though there's breakage here, it's under our control, whereas when the tenants had possession of our home, they took over control. We have it back now, and we can handle most anything coming our way.
btw - wanna hear something funny? The "former friends" that moved away - she sent me a FB friend request...... now That shocked and stunned me - and I found myself saying firmly "no way". Of course she won't know what I said, but there's no way I'm going to re-friend her. I don't say anything about our tenants on FB, but I don't believe that we could go back to being friends with people who took the side of our tenants and helped them in oh-so-many ways to treat us so badly. That's water under the bridge, and not going to cross that bridge again.....!! It's sad to lose friends, but we didn't push them away, they did it to us. oh well...... moving on with life, eh?
