Wow--excellent thoughts, Puppy. I often need help "reframing" things, and you just gave me a much more empowered way of thinking about this. From our prior conversation it seems much more to have to do with "going to court" and "using the evidence against him," or at least that seems that someone may have put that into his head. But there's also the guilt part; you know, it's appropriate that he feel guilt because he's caused a lot of pain. And it's not that I want to "punish" him, but I think if this comes out into the open he'll have to deal with it; as it is now, he's just able to stay in denial. I really need to "take back my power" in this, because all along it's been H calling the shots. I don't do well in that kind of situation; I tend to curl up inside and that's the last thing I need to be doing here. Thanks for reframing for me and giving me not only a strategy but a different point of view.
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