[AnnieBL]

Aww, thanks. What's with all the love for me around here, lately? lol

(I told you - its the glow )

EDIT-Oh, nevermind. I guess this is the thread I went all dramatic in, so I was asking for it, in a way.

I gotta say...."spraying all this with smilies" cracked me up. I also liked "the friends were the most dangerous", although I'm not sure I understand that one!

(Well, there was the Canadian lawyer with political connections who wanted to employ my wife-to-be, and thought he could influence the immigration process. That was nearly fatal )

I don't really get how a custody battle complete with immigration provides a glow. Is it like a perseverance in the face of adversity kinda glow? I guess it must be. Either that, or a "I'd have had to been there" kinda thing.

Yes, I knew what I had to achieve and I was going for it come what may - exhilarating as well as difficult, long drawn out and scary. In fact I was getting comments at the time that I was a different person from people who had no real idea what was going on. And I got one hell of a lift when a neighbour's wife tried quite hard (but unsuccessfully) to seduce me under the kitchen sink. Nothing like that ever happened to me before (or since) - I must have been radiating some kind of aura to make me a honeypot. Oh, well, I'm probably spouting nonsense but it was the best explanation I could come up with.