Checking in, FLTC. Remember my suggestion about listing positives about being separated? This is not to mean that we LIKE being separated, but just trying to put a positive spin on things that we have no choice about. I have one positive re. meals: cooking dinner is easy now. I can leave off the meat and potatoes and just cook broccoli if I want. I have not read all your earlier posts, FLTC, but I get the feeling your wife was not necessarily easy to live with. Can you tell me just one good thing about being separated?