But I must say, how mean is it of your "wife" to take the kids away on their birthday from you... That's is cruel. She must be very disconnected, but I guarantee you at the end of our lives, she will know what she did was wrong and not okay... I'd love to hear Michelle's take on why men like us who are just trying to do good work, don't cheat, honest, and I think, good guys, get shafted by the ideal that a "wife" is always entitled to this idea, if my life is wonderful and happy and exciting I have a right to find it and leave my "husband" since it is all his fault... sounds like your wife blames you too and points the finger in only one direction and is unable to see her contribution to the problems... it is a cowardly way to behave and you lose a lot of respect for a person behaving this way. Her actions will never solve her problems.
I care about you and am sorry for your pain. I don't think any good, nice man out there deserves or should be burdoned and tortured by pains of the heart to these extremes...