I think this business of putting your "mark" on the newly vacated space in your home (when/if she leaves) is a good idea. It's good for you, first of all, and second - it sends the right message to WAW. Personal experience here ~~~ when I moved out of our home, I took very little in terms of furniture. But the little space I did leave with the furniture I took, I'll be damned if Coach didn't put his drum set right in the middle of it, front and center in HIS living room. The first time I came back to the house to pick up our D and saw the drums sitting where my desk had been, I was livid. Thought to myself - what fresh hell is this???? And immediately on the heels of that thought came - "He's making this place HIS where it used to be OURS." Ouch.
Now to be sure, this home decor event did not immediately turn the ship around. But it was but one more significant crack in the wall we had built between us.
Good move, SP.
Cheers ~
Me45 H46 T25 M22 S21 & 19 D13 Separated and filed 8/08 Moved home 11/08