Hi, Choc.

LFL made a very important point to you regarding guilt.

You have admitted to your part of the problem, and you are facing the result head on. Good deal.

Now, until you reach the recovery phase in your relationship, lose the guilt, and don't mention it to your wife again. The reason for this is simple - from this point on, EVERYTHING will be blamed on you by her. Everything that has ever been wrong with the marriage, even things that you have never even considered, things that you have never even heard of, will be your fault. Allowing your guilt to further feed the entitlement monster is just that, fuel for the engine. So don't do it.

You have lots of good folks pulling for you. I am counting on you to hold it together and continue to be the hero.

You do this thing right and you become the hope of a better future for some of the people that are posting to you, and some that are lurking and just following the story as well. Most importantly, your children will see something rise up in you that they have never witnessed before. They won't know what to think of it at first, they may never even define it, but the positive change in you will impact them for the rest of their lives. You will never be perfect, and they don't expect you to be, but I promise you, they will never forget witnessing the birth of a real man.

-NOPkins-


I will ferret out an affair at any opportunity.

-An affair is the embodiment of entitlement, fueled by resentment and lack of respect.
-An infidel will remain unreachable so long as their sense of entitlement exceeds their ability to reason.