Bill, you're a male perspective here, please keep posting.
It is unfair to anyone here to say your advice only applies if you have been doing this X ammount of time.
If the advice is sound, the advice is sound.
It is up to the person recieving the advice to judge the merits of the poster, and if the advice can be used or implemented.
IF BND gave me advice about how to handle a divorce, and I love BND, I be going, well...you didn't get one, how does this apply, how do you know? If the advice was still good, I'd listen.
N2M,
Are you pushing your own buttons on any of this? I know my wife came back too soon. I had to stop getting myself worked up, I had to get out of the mindset that this is going to fail, I had to stop looking for reasons why it wouldn't work. So I am curious, how much of this is your doing to yourself. And I am not being mean here. It is an honest question, because I did it.
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn. - C.S. Lewis
Life is usually all about how you handle Plan B. - Jack3Beans
Listen without defending; Speak without offending - FaithinAK