S, I never posted about the first two stages of Acceptance...that was from a posting of Heart's Blessing. I posted about a stage that was never addressed here until I started doing research on it and that is the very final stage and I wouldn't even call it acceptance....I called it the "settling in stage". That is the very final stage whereby the spouse has returned home and is still sorting himself/herself out for approximately 8 - 18 months. It's a stage that occurs only if the spouse is home, not while they are traveling around the universe.
As braveheart has pointed out, the stages are just a guidelines, i.e., they are not concrete. However, the settling in period has been demonstrated a number of times here on the board...BND is one of those ladies that has experienced yet, just as Yellow Rose has.
