rockedworld, Well, mostly good news and progress. Good for you. I have not been in your position, so just by what I've learned here, and my gut instinct:
Originally Posted By: rockedworld
If he is not willing to have complete transparency, then I ask him to leave? Is that my only option for enforcing this? If anyone else has other ideas, I am open.
No, you tell him to leave "I will not share you with another woman. At all,etc"
Originally Posted By: rockedworld
Also - I do not want him to know about this forum and one friend that I have confided in about my sitch thru email. If we have complete transparency both ways, I feel I am jeopardizing my few support systems. What would I do about that?
I never got the impression on this forum that the transparency is a two-way street. What trust did you violate? Dunno, I may be wrong here. But if you do it jointly, I'd insist on keeping this board out of it, much as you wouldn't include your diary (innermost thoughts and feelings), had you been keeping one during this period. Is the one friend male?
I now defer to Coach, Puppy, et al.
Happy Thanksgiving, rocked.
Gardener
"My soul, be satisfied with flowers, With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them In the one garden you may call your own." Cyrano deBergerac