Thank you EVERYONE!
Thank you Nik, for visiting my thread.

I do really appreciate you. I have heard similar words about this MLC forum, and somehow, things feel differently to me now since I've been here. No. The people have been wonderful, but I do feel stuck. I am sure that I will go to another forum when this thread locks -- not sure that I can do it beforehand.

Before I get started, I want to say that I had a phone visit from Austin today. She made me feel SO much better. I had been crying on the way home, but when she called, I even laughed a little bit. THAT was miraculous!

OK, so here is my update;

As I left for work this morning, I pulled a piece of H's mail out of his/our mailbox and left it on the table for him, with a note saying:

Dear Husband, Please do not come home anymore without me being here. I have asked you several times to honor this request. Please honor it from now on. Sincerely, Suzanne

He was home today. And he did read the note but did not take his piece of mail. Incidentally, one of my spike heels came off last night and I couldn't find it. (It is small and black). He found it and left in on the table, next to the note. That's how I know he read my note. It was his non-verbal way of saying, "I read your note."

I don't know if he will honor my request, but I do know that he was snooping, ie. on my computer and possibly reading my stuff. (I had a thumb drive next to the computer).

So, I guess this is another modality of his disrespecting my feelings. I do believe he reads my thread too. Oh well. What can I do?

Poet