The fat lady is warming up....

[I_Wanna_Make_It_Work]

OF - You have been encouraging and have helped me focus in these few months of my journey. I feel your pain. I know your doubt. But stop it. Stop trying to control this.

Even a few minutes on the phone makes it so painfully clear that she remains nearly as self-absorbed, narcissistic, and selfish as ever and that precious little progress has been made in the last several months.

Too bad I don't have some extra time, or I'd go through all of your 447 posts as see how many times you have told others "you don't know what she is thinking". Come to think of it, I don't really have to, do I? You know it's more than just once or twice. Please, listen to your own words. You don't know what she's thinking.

Yes, keep moving forward in your life. Do what you need to do to get through this turbulence in your professional life. Do what you need to do to maintain the relationships and establish new ones. But there's no reason to just write the M off because W and God can't meet your time schedule. Why are you connecting "moving on" with what you have to do for your survival to having to give up on M? They are not connected - unless you somehow think that you can not move forward without searching for a new companion. You will be too busy in the next few weeks/months for that. So is it really necessary to take such a stand on giving up?

Let it be, OF. Do nothing as it pertains to your W & M. Don't force the D forward. You don't need to. Don't try to control it. Let it "whither on the vine" or let W take the action.

PS: You need a new thread, soon. You may want to add that to the list of things to do so as to avoid too much action on your part in pushing forward the D. LOL.