I am glad to see that I may be on the right track. One question though-WAW filed for D in November and the clock is ticking. I know I don't have a say in this but how do I test the waters? Should I ask her to dismiss the D and risk her saying no or do I keep on DB and talking to judge the barometer of the situation? We had some serious problems in our M (of which I am probably more tha 50% to blame) and I admitted to her that our old marriage was "dead" and that we needed to start over again. She is very sorry for the pain this S and D are causing me and our 2 S. I know she is in control and I need to work on myself. I just want to scream and tell her that we can be S but she has put us on the course for D and there is nothing I can do about it. I have a pretrial date on Tuesday and the dates will be set for the rest of the D. She still doesn't want to tell our S that this is D and not a S like we told them afer X-mas. I told her I would wait another month but after that the kids must be told. Am I acting out of desperation here?