...his ex had stopped asking him to work on it together or get back with each other.
Uh, isn't that the DB, right there? Maybe it took her a long time to get there. Very enlightening.
Look, my mind spins on my sitch and my H and my kids...I really get it. I'm struggling myself to come up with some 180s for me, focus on positive, have gratitude, etc.
It is very hard to know what we know and not make the S "get it." I battle with this everyday. But, I was know-it-all in R and maybe H needs to do his own thing and discover the truth for himself. Even when he has acknowledged I am right, it doesn't change the sitch. Probably because he resents me for being right, as usual.
Did you have any of that in your sitch? Control, dominating, being the voice of reason? Just curious.