Yes, it was a goal rr. It's not the first time that he's smiled, but it's still an event when it happens. He generally doesn't seem as angry now. Maybe he's getting laid. Good point about how to look at these babysteps.
Tomorrow it will have been 3 months of separation...a quarter of a year. It's baffling to me how we could go from being in a troubled M, to breaking up our family and living separate lives with so little conversation. We had a few short, anguished conversations between the bomb and the separation, and then super brief one about a week after he moved out...then nada.
me: 42 | STBXH: 41 | T: 18 | M: 10 | separation: Jan 3, 2010 | they deserve better: S7 & D4 current thread: http://tinyurl.com/3y8sxcp .: first breathe, then heal, then start LIVING :.