Seperation Success Stories?

[7 Year Itch]

So I'm desperately needing to hear of some success stories after separation. Anyone have any. H will probably be moving out within the next 2 weeks (getting some things finalized, I have an interview on a job Monday etc.......), and I'm seriously feeling like it's the beginning of the end.

He has said repeatedly he knows he is done, it'll never change etc. Yet tonight when we discussed what we should say to our D's when it happens, he said we tell them "Mommy and Daddy aren't getting along right now, and we think we'd all be happy if we took a break from each other for while etc.". So I said........ "What happens when D6 asks if you are going to come back home?" I know she will because she's asked me several times if Daddy is ever going to sleep in our bedroom again (he's been sleeping downstairs for over a month). To which he said. "I don't think we tell her we are getting divorced. We take it one day at a time. He says as long as we are making progress towards the divorce (ie me getting a job, him moving out etc) he will delay the actual filing. Meanwhile he is CLEAR in telling me that I should still have NO hope, and he doesn't forsee anything changing, but that he truly won't know until he moves out and sees.

So part of me is staying hopeful, yet I've see the "done" look in his eyes, and his message hasn't waivered ONCE in the two months since the bomb. This separation has my heart breaking for my girls, AND me. I feel like it's really just the next step to divorce rather than reconciliation.

Help. I need to hear something positive. I still am waiting to wake up from this nightmare.

Chris