Oh, Treese, and I was going to reply on your other post, too.
Sounds like you are trying to make sense of where this nuttiness came from. I went through that, too.
I did come to a place that was more, I guess, rational, for me. I came to an understanding maybe of how it may have happened that my wife took the steps she did, made the decisions she did. And in that I was able to forgive her somewhat. To tell the truth, I have to keep on forgiving, and I'm not really all caught up with her yet on that score. But I'm working on it.
Anyway my understanding of her past, or her as a fragile child who was abandoned, really, by her own father, a child of divorce and a child of an alcoholic, who gave up too much of her childhood... when I understood more of that background, hmm, I don't want to say, it started to make sense, but at least I started to understand it?
Empathy and patience is the thing for me now...
Anyway I'm sorry that you're wrassling with this alligator, trying to make sense of something that isn't sensible at all.
M 43 S14 S13 D11 D7 Divorce final: Jan 2009 Making it up as I go....