[/quote]. My W is a few months ahead of your H, but he is following the same path of recovery and growth, except with his own issues.[quote]
CL,
In what way do you mean a few months ahead?
Yes I do think we have enough signs to keep us in the M (or what ever you call it right now , and yes, give them the space they need to work on their issues.
So, do you think im'e on track in my thinking with the progress,(him being in the last stage of this crap) H is making?
H always has shoved things away and not dealt with them. If we ever had an argument even small he wouldn't talk for a few days and then act like nothing ever happened. I started to do that too, just from years of dealing with him.
It had been two years since he did thing with his friends unless it was a forced sitch. IE: wives planning get togethers. Then he would go along but would be quiet.
I do hope the stategy works. So far i think that this kind of distancing, and confronting issues is what has worked to bring him this far.
I have never been so tired ,battered, and brusied feeling. I would do it all again, because of what i have been taught here and in all of the reading I have done.
I do have hope that I will remain married but if I don't I know i will have a better life.
JAK
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when, you can only decide how you're going to live now. ~Joan Baez