Thanks, gima. I had already stopped attempting to make contact. Last night was just a honest wish to all.
I have no control. I will stop completely now.
But I keep thinking the question all of us on this forum have all asked ourselves at one time or another in one fashion or another (usually, of course,in relation to spouses):
How does a person simply discard a loved one?
I choose to think of it as letting them go, not throwing them away. If they come back, then it's up to us to decide if we want them back. If not, we haven't lost anything.
And if they don't, the painful realization is that our perception of our R with them is different than their view of it.