He wants to come home tonight. He said he will clean out the spare room and stay in there. He said he 'isn't being a good friend or a good father' and he feels like a bad person. He said he was trying to be honest but sometimes that isn't what is best. He said he wants to be here for us and that he will listen to me. (?)
I told him I didn't want him to come home unless he was ready to work on the M or talk to a counselor. He said if that is what I want to do he will do it.
He told you what you wanted to hear. Do you not have a agreement on solutions? Why won't you bring up your concerns? You let him treat you this way, you have the ability to stop it. Stop being his mother and be his wife.
M22,H45,W45 S21/18D12 Retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties and at the same time confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.