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Relationships with family*
Relationships with friends (Jewish, non-Jewish, secular)
Some less-than-desirable middos (that’s an ongoing process)
Caring what people with bad middos think (a looooong ongoing process)
An attitude that needed giving up (part of the processes above)
Caring what my hair looks like (mostly a relief)
Shorts (don’t miss them)
Participating in semi-professional performing groups (that I do miss)
Non-kosher types of entertainment
Nice cars, house, picket fence
Other relationships/things dear to me that I can’t list because there are probably people here who can already guess who I am
*yes, we tried to be conciliatory, in many ways for many years. Finally for the sake of our shalom bayis and the chinuch of our children, we cut our losses. We keep contact to a minimum now.