As I said, quit stalling. She knows you don't want a divorce, but she doesn't care. You aren't going to win her back by sitting on the papers and waiting for a miraculous reconciliation. You might not realize this, but you are actually still pushing her further away. I didn't fight at all...didn't even get a lawyer. We just talked it through, her lawyer wrote it up, and just like that...divorced. Reconciliation after that is kind of like starting with a clean slate....old marriage is dead and buried so you can later officially start with a brand new one (if it's going to happen). I personally would say something like, "I've thought it over. It isn't what I want, but I do want you to be happy, even if it is without me, so I'll sign the papers. I'm sorry that things came to this...I wish it could have been different." And I wouldn't say anything about, "I'll always love you", because you don't know that...and more than likely (if you don't get back together) you won't always love her. Eventually, you might not even like her.


In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt