So I have read this entire string and can see that there is some benefit to Retro and that it is a challenge to get a spouse to come. So.... I guess I need to stop and reflect on how I can get my W to come to the session in Jan in our town.

I appreciate all of the excellent thoughts and ideas already posted herein. My hope is that some of this renewed intimacy that she and I have had over the last week or two will ignite some additional feelings in her and help her to go. My fear is that she has a home party the weekend of the event and I need to pray that she will give up the party and the income to work on our marriage.

I am so hopeful sometimes, and then others I am completely without hope. All the while she is holding out for Jim Halpert!

So, I appreciate any suggestions that you all may have, but really I would ask for you to pray for Mrs. Hound in hopes that she will attend. I still think that there is something very special under the surface of all of this mess....

Me: 33 jacka** whom lied, stole, cheated, and basically treated DW like crap for years
DW: 29 kind soul who gave too much to me over the relationship

S7
S4

M: 7yrs
Bomb: 10/19
Seperated: 10/24

The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce