maybe this is a better way to look at it:

our spouses may be ill or lacking or confused because they are walking away from their marriages, however, we may be as well because we are clinging to them.

i think i really did a good job in the last year of getting a life and raising my pma, but i still was clinging to a marriage that was very broken. we talk about letting it go, letting our spouses go, but it isn't until we truly do that, that we can heal. and maybe in time then the marriage can heal too, but that again requires two people. and i think for many of us, it is very difficult to really let go and detach lovingly while still being physically and emotionally connected to the other person. i am not sure how the others do it. i couldn't and didn't.


Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. -Marcus Aurelius

Me: 32 XH: 33
M: 8 years
Affair discovered: 06/2006
rediscovered: 11/2006
Separation: 04/2007
Divorced: 10/09/07