You missed my point about you and my H.

My H said he did everything but he did nothing.

You are saying you did all the work on you but you have not done any work on you.

It is easy to say you did *something* and convince yourself of that when in reality you did nothing.

You say you are not stuck in fear, right? If that is the case then why can't you set a boundary? Why can't you create a goal that does not involve your W?

There is not a thing wrong with recognizing the church as your spiritual authority. Using the church to avoid working on you in the name of answering to a higher authority is a problem. If you could attack your own issues with the same vigor you are using to explore the validity of your M (when you were not even married in a Catholic Church and you said you were fine with that and did not care) things would be better for you.