I know for me, it was helpful when my H would say to me "I am trying right now. I know it is hard to understand but this is all I can do right now. I need space and time to heal and work on me."

Also, I don't think I appreciated how hard it was probably for my H to be displaced and not have a home. As a LBS, it is really hard to feel sympathy in the moment for that because you feel like "well then come home, you are doing this to us and to yourself, you are picking this... duh... you should be unhappy." So, I know that sounds cruel... but that is a thought that went through my head from time to time. So, try and keep in mind that he probably doesn't understand that feeling of pain that you have right now, because he may see it as you being happy to leave and be on your own and something you are picking and choosing.


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