How wonderful! I'm so happy for you--but not surprised. Retrouvaille is a wonderful tool! I was one of many praying for your marriage this weekend.

Forgetting isn't important, and besides, it's impossible. Forgiveness means you agree to be vulnerable with the other person again, that you no longer use whatever the transgression is as a wall between you. Forgiving is not a one-time thing--it's daily. But it takes a lot of work to get to this point; now you just have to recommit to it. Now that you're reconnected, it's much easier.

Keep dialoguing; follow the script once you're not exhausted. Make it your highest priority. We did not, we fell into dialoguing AT each other, and the progress we had made was gone after 3 months. Learn from our mistakes!


M60
H52
D20
M14 yrs
OW-old gf from 1986
bomb-5/18/08
H filed for D-9/10/08
D final 4/24/09
xH remarried (not OW) 2012