OT - we cross posted but thanks for the additional clarification. I totally agree, especially wanted to comment on this:
"IMHO, too many people try to work piecing one-sided. The M is held together in a shaky way for a couple of years, and then falls apart."
As I know happened to many of us - during/shortly after the first bomb H told me (much to my shock) that he felt he was doing everything he possibly could to fix our M for the prior few years and he was giving up. I was thinking - really? Where was I during this whole "fixing" process? I didn't even know anything was all that bad.. but hey, OK, you're telling me now, so let's fix it together. Oh wait.. too late, he's already given up.
Me trying to "fix" it alone isn't going to work any better.
Me 35, H 38; Together 13.5 yrs, M 7 Bomb 1 10/07/06 Sep'd 1/14/07 - 4/15 Piecing: 4/07 - 9/07 Bomb 3 10/11/07: Never loved you, let's separate 2/08 slowly improving 7/08 Piecing (7/25/08 rings back on!!) Current thread