Absolutely stuck. Absolutely.

I agree I did reorganize my priorities- the big house and new car didn't seem that important to me all of a sudden. Just needed to stop the big gaping wound in my chest.

I forgot- do you have kids?

One thing I can promise you is that she has not prepared for someone else to be tucking them in at night- as in another woman one day. If you could get her to think about that it might wake her up a bit.

I was prepared to not be married to my exH anymore- I was not prepared for how I would feel once stepmom started painting my daughters fingernails and things like that. Very painful- and I had never even considered it.