I'm so glad for you, that you have nipped this in the bud, before the resentment became like my H. He has had an EA, and in Dec, I just found out, called an attorney's office several times, but hasn't filed or anything, and this was after he said we would try, so I am hoping all the things I am now doing that I wasn't doing before are helping. He has said he wasn't going anywhere, even though over a year ago, he told ow that he was just doing time here waiting for our S to grow up, then leave. But, ow's # hasn't been on his cell phone since, so I am hoping he realizes what a bad mistake we almost made, him not giving me a chance, and me not taking the chance to change.
It seems that the more their viewpoints are validated, and their worth is affirmed, the more they feel good about themselves and you.