our children are 6. I think my wife is going to be in for a shock over the next year, as ours too, get more independant.
We've had problem issues for as long as we've known each other. The irony is, I think that we've done a better job of managing, and improving our communication with each other during our separation, than we did while we were living together.
I think both of us have "grown" to some degree because of it, and that we could really be happy if we used what we've found so far, and kept building on it. There's just the small detail, that she's apparently decided to look for the magic happiness pill "out there" now, instead of together as a family. sigh.
I miss my wife. The caring side of her, anyway.
[i also keep thinking about sex with her, dammit. very distracting it's been a month now.. sulk... she said she had to go see the dr. for "female problems", though, so she may have lost all SD for an extended period of time.. sniff...]
My current status: june 2006. Wife ran out and filed D. Finalized Jan 11, 2010, after 12.5 years M. 3 wonderful sons caught in the middle