"You said "chance of reconcilling." What on earth gave you the impression that that might even be a possibility? Am I missing something?"
Nothing gave me the idea that it would be a possibility. In fact I said "It isn't going to happen..." I was just saying that holding onto the old family homestead and keeping his parents as boarders is not going to increase the likelihood of reconcilliation, if anything, it would probably lessen it. Why would I think that you were trying to hold onto the house and living situation for such a reason? Because I really don't see anything valuable about holding onto them if you are moving forward into a new future that includes letting go, really, of all this stuff with XH and his family.