Someone tonight (the only coworker that knows about this) said to me "Why would you allow him to separate from you AND possibly see OW?". I sat there for a second and said "Well, for me, right now, I need to leave that teeny tiny crack in the window open for H, so when I am finally ready to let go completely, I'll be ready".
Mr Ohio_Mark once said, "I am not in a hurry to reconcile and I am not in a hurry to get a divorce". So true.