Thanks, HF. I do think his days with her are numbered. If not, well, whatever.
As far as the cooking--yeah, well, H has been a control freak. I am giving that a lot of thought as I do not want to live with a control freak again.
I continue to DB but am not sure that I want him back.
My H has much more growing up to do than most. We never had a traditional marriage in that I worked the entire time, and D2 was born late in our lives. I make more money than H and helped him too much with various aspects of his work. So he really is clueless basic facts of life around certain things, because Mama Breton did a lot of things for him. In return he took me for granted.
I am sorry that I over-babied him--I have thought about that quite a bit. He also allowed it, though.
H has few if any friends now, is also my guess (most of our friends were people that I'd met). I've read that a conflict in relationships w/big age differences is how to have friends as a couple. Do you hang out with people who are 22 or 44?
So likely he deals almost exclusively w/girl child.
Also, I've read the "infatuation" phase of relationships tends to last no more than 18 months, and starts fading at 6. I noticed a change in my H towards me at 7 months--seemed more respectful.
The blush is coming off the rose....
But this old gray mare is NOT what she used to be. Kickin'.....
M: 16 years Bomb 4/07 OW 20s long gone Divorced 11/09 I remarried New Guy Cooperative r w/X regarding D