Tal, if I could have written it FOR you, your post about the "talk" couldn't have been any closer to the mark!!!
I HAVE to chime in here on the WAW sentiment. CJ too MUST have believed that I was fed up and ready to ditch the M myself. I suppose that years of being undermined and dismissed will do that.
I heard such for the first time when after bomb #1, CJ's sister (who was cutting my hair, she's our stylist) said that CJ thought HE was getting out before I made MY move!!!
Like you, I was CLUELESS!!!
Thank God and all the powers of good that we smartened up, eh?