I know I will not be able to keep it up which is why I have been seeing D as pretty much the only option. He's found someone to rescue, which makes him feel really good about himself, and no matter what I am not going to turn myself into a woman like that.
I am going to use a lot of what you've said, but sadly, I think that at the end of the day, there's no way he'll go NC with her. I think if I started dating or filed for D it would jolt him into saying he wants to reconcile, but the NC wouldn't fly. Or he'd agree to it and then hide it like he did last time. They're "just friends" first, you know, but there's no way I'm going to put time into reconciling with a man who's "just friends" with a woman he's been having sex with! And the first thing she'd do is have some huge crisis that she couldn't get through without him.
M: 35 H: 34 S: 8 Married: 12 years Together: 16 years Bomb: 11/2/09 Sep: 1/1/10 EA confirmed: 11/2/09 PA confirmed: 3/28/10