I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but to be perfectly honesty I have no where else to turn. Maybe here at least people come here because they want to. Better than the alternative of talking to someone who does not want to hear it, which is practically everyone. In December of '09 my ex-wife tells me she wants divorce. There were no warning signs, overt ones anyway - retrospect is an eye opener, and she said nothing about it until one day between Christmas and New Year's....BAM here you go! I feel empty and hopeless. Mostly because I cannot see any future of substance. I almost seem to have lost any social interaction skill whatsoever; not to mention that talking to people makes me agitated and extremely nervous...I hate it because I didn't use to be like this. I believe it all stems from being tossed to the street like a bag of garbage that no one would think twice about. I have dated one person since the divorce and to be honest she was crazy needy and I wasn't ready. I know the type of person I would like to find but I do not think she exists. Regardless, my question is...how long does it take to be happy again? I know that is ambiguous but it is the only way I know to say it.