BEAUTIFUL note to your family! How did you feel writing it, sending it?
My family was the same way, probably still is. "He's gone, he's been checked out for years, he's not coming back." Him living with his younger girlfriend doesn't help much either.
My response to my family when they'd say they were just trying to help was..
"If he was in the hospital in a coma, would you tell me to leave?"
The working on what's going on is as much for me now as it is for the marriage/relationship/future.
