Thanks snodderly, I didn't see this post earlier, but I did have a discussion with W this morning. It was somewhere between 1 &2 I think. It went OK and She has called me since then so we shall see. I don't know if it will make a big difference to the better but it appears right now at least to not have been to detrimental.
I posted a rambling update about the convo over on my thread in the Newcomers section.
Steel
M 39, W 35 D7, S5 Friends 18+ Together 11+ Married 8 ILYBINILWY 4/7/07 - A BOMB 4/29/07 Seperated 5/16/07 - D Filed She Moved out 7/1 D Busted 6/15/08