But sweetie (and I say that with much affection in my heart),........why couldn't you take back control of your life before?
Sandi, I did before, but I don't think until early December when W changed her mind about MC ("No, I never said I'd go for reconciliation") that I was truly ready to walk from the "M."
So what took me so long? Maybe misplaced hope that W would choose to work on the M. Maybe a sense of obligation to try everything I could before giving up on keeping my family together. Don't know. It just did.
But for the intervening Holidays, I would have been on this path in mid December.