I hope that the image haunts those children for a long time, and that it shapes them to become better people. Let something good come from something horrible.
What Jon said is accurate, many of those things need to happen, do not take him back because he ran out of options, do not take him back without boundaries...but please please understand...in MLC this more than likely will not happen for a long time. If it even happens at all.
In MLC you stack the deck in your favor to stand as long as you can. You protect yourself from going crazy, you basically store up time and patience to weather the spouse's MLC as long as you can.
Ali is hitting the nail on the head about alot of things in my opinion about your sitch.
Jon, Flicka, I would like to sincerely apologies for my words yesterday. Friends are great to have in this. MLC is a little bit different in the mentality to make it, we almost have to become masocistic to make it, as seen from those otuside of it. But the trick is to remember this is our choice, ours, no one elses, and in that choice, is our control.
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn. - C.S. Lewis
Life is usually all about how you handle Plan B. - Jack3Beans
Listen without defending; Speak without offending - FaithinAK