Whelp - it was short lived. I felt like my wife was trying in our relationship for a couple weeks but she isn't anymore. We had a fight about my family again and I said something stupid which I tried unsuccessfully to apoligize for the next day (and for the next several days) and now we are back to where we were about 6 months ago - on the verge of divorce. She took off her rings and is in her high and mighty self rigthtous (sp ?) mode again. On New Years eve I sat on my back porch thinking I wonder if we will make it thru the year and thinking it was 50/50 at best. I'm tired of this same old sh*t and inability/unwillingness to forgive anyone except her kids for mistakes. I don't think she cares if we stay together or not. Sex is basically dead. We are cautiously cordial to each other but conversations aren't stimulating and we avoid any subject that we might have our own individual opinion on. I think she might be playing me just waiting until her two oldest get out of high school biding time till then when she'll leave. We might not make it that long - I've been offered a position about 1000 miles away and I'm thinking of taking it and just me and my kids going. I've got about a month or so to decide. When I asked about her rings she said she misplaced them and there was no reason to try to find them. I'm very seriously considering handing her mine.
