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both my husband and i are optimists - although we are realistic too - e.g., when something bad happens, we totally accept it and look at the bright side of whatever it is and just roll with it ...
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This was DH and I. I'm still an optimist - couldn't have survived the past 8-1/2 years if I wasn't. I am a realist though and not the kind of optimist who buries my head in the sand. If something needs to be dealt with I deal with it and move on, but always knowing it will get better. I just learned a long long time ago (right after having my first child, who is almost 24) that worrying about everything isn't going to fix it by a long shot, so why make myself sick over things that are out of my control. If they're in my control then fix it/deal with it/etc. I have a hard time dealing with negative people and can honestly say the people I'm close to are not pessimists.