Forward yes it is a long time and that is only post bomb, I truly suspect if I looked at things properly that ex started going downhill into this when there were a few events happened in 2003, so that would actually make it more like seven years for ex, the events were like his beloved cousin dying and he thought a lot of her, then he was facing redundancy, and few other things that dont spring to mind just now but I think that was the start of it all, so in hindsight approaching seven years