The other, distinct possibility is that she's still just underestimating my resolve. And judging from my past history of not sticking to boundaries or tough tasks, I can't really fault her thinking.
She probably thinks that my hard-azz'ness will fade, we'll settle back into our old comfortable ways, and she can pursue the goombah on the side, this time more carefully after learning a trick or two about keeping things hidden. All the while under the guise of a minor reconciliation, coupled with cost-cutting (and efforts at increased income on her part) designed to put us AND her in a better financial place from which to LATER blow up the marriage.
In other words, she may realize that now is not her moment of maximum financial opportunity, so she's hoping to buy some time.
Who knows. I'm moving forward, full-steam, with placing more and more financial responsibility on her, in an effort to strip the Princess of her entitlement garments.
Choc., who just had a fleeting, yet disturbing thought of a naked Snow White
