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.
I think Gardener was saying that he is the one being discarded, not the other way around.
Me: 44, Wife: 39 M: 17 years T: 20 years Bomb on 08/25/09 1/13/10: MC started 1/28/10, 2/8/10: More bombs 8/28/10: Wife moved out No talk of D, no movement