Ok that's what I was afraid I would hear.

One of the reasons this is what we are considering doing is precisely because he refuses to have NO contact with OW and still feels he cannot commit to marriage. I used the "I'm not willing to be in an open marriage" line from one of you... (thanks)and that's when we started to discss separation.

I am thinking it is going to make this go public a lot faster, which means he will have to deal with consequences of that to our kids and everyone else.

I don't know what else to do in a sitch like this?