The more I examine my own situation, the more I realize that it took two to get here.
I chose to put up with the excessive behavior for years. For all those years it was annoying but stable. Now it is escalating. Why? This is my question now.
It may be a countdown to freedom, or it may be a countdown to a new marriage with this same woman for me. Either way I find my present situation unworkable, as you do, and am moving unilaterally to change things.
Certain little artifacts suggest that my own wife may be thinking about the future. As I mentioned before, I am going to do all I can to make my kids' lives stable, as you are. Can we convince our wives to join us in healthier unions? Difficult to say for me, but I'm trying to envision scenarios in which it's possible.
Either way we are brothers. What part of TX are you from?
M:40 W:40 2 teenagers ILYBNILWY: 09 January 2010 soon to be walking away my situation