Should You Be Their "Best Friend"?

[Silver Fox]

Thank you so much Puppy for starting this thread. I haven't posted for a very long time but I've been reading and learning so much. I've gone dark - completely black actually - and have not seen my H for 3 months now. It's been amazingly helpful and I will start posting on my own thread soon to explain it all.

As to the "friends" question - from the beginning my H tried the "I'm so sorry this (the OW) has happened but can't we please be friends"? Some other gems out of his mouth were "It would mean the world to me if we could set aside the bad feelings and move forward with a new friendship".

And his last email to me after I Counter Filed - "I pray that when all this is over we can look back as friends from an entirely different point of view".

Translation? Please let me have my way, don't give me a hard time, be my friend and I won't have to feel so guilty.

I don't think so buddy.

Sleeper - your runaway lawnmower analogy is perfect!!