Just read through your thread. I`m interested in the MLC aspect of things as I`m living with an MLCer too.Like your wife he too has had a very domineering parent who controlled everything and one of the things he mentioned to me eight months ago re this M crisis was that he felt everyone else was in control of his life.
It seems in his case to be a question of wanting to contol/wanting to be controlled. As he hates change and hates making decisions.
I`m intrigued by Mach`s quote"We think we're going to stop the emotional divorce by stopping the legal divorce. The more you try to stop the legal side of divorce, the more rebellious he or she feels."
Should we just let them roll on out of the M and go all the way down the legal route to see if that`s what they really want?
Sometimes I think my H really won`t know what he wants until he`s sitting in his rented apartment alone.