The interesting thing is that anything can happen. Someone can be home and not really home. Someone can be gone and might be looking for a way back. Some can ask to come home and the LBS can say no.
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Mrs H - standing or swaying or sitting or swirling around in circles .... all you can do, right now, right or wrong, is get on with your life.
Yes. And that doesn't mean give up hope.
Hope should not be conditional on the statistics. Hope should be something within. Would you stand if there was a 1 in 2 chance that your spouse would return? How about 1 in 10? 1 in 100? 1 in 10,000? What if 9,999 out of 10,000 returned and you were the odd one out?
Look, most of us have been around here long enough to know what happens. I have been divorced for six and a half years and just because I was divorced, it didn't mean I still wasn't allowing my former Mrs the opportunity to return. And even today, if she came to me and asked for the opportunity to return, I would listen. I don't know what I would do, but I would listen.