Dave, if anything my separation from my wife has made us better friends, we have gotten along better and we have done more things together in the past 6 weeks then we ever did in the past 6 months, prior to the S. I am confident that it was the right thing for us to do. It may not have shaken up our M, but it has shaken up our R as friends. You can't have a W who is not your friend first.
I don't know about 80% of couples who separate do not get back together, I have never seen that statistic. But, I have seen that 80% of married couples do separate at one point in their marriage. And we know that 50% of all couples divorce. So some one smarter then my can do the math, but I don't see how 80% of couples that separate never get back together. If only 50% of couples D.
Keep in mind everything that is typed her by anyone is their opinion, not law. You have to use you own logic and feelings to decipher it all. But, ultimately in the end the choices and decisions you make have to be your own and they have to be made for you benefit and for life and for your well being and no one else's.
“Do you want to be RIGHT or want to be LOVED” “You have to have a life to share a life with someone” “When you stop resisting, you start learning”