This just cements in my mind that if you back off and give him the space he needs to heal, that your marriage can be saved.
Pam, it took my husband over a year to get to this point!! I am sure that if I had backed off more and given him the space he needed, it wouldn't have taken a year for him to come back to me. He teetered on the edge between loving me and wanting a care free life for months!
Well, I have no regrets for the path I took. Perhaps I needed that year.
But if I can help you shave some time off your separation, I shall!
Keep up your hard work! Remember, by being quiet and listening to him, and giving him his space, you are speaking his love language!
Don't worry if it takes him some time, you are doing great!
Morning Pam - I overslept this morning and did not get a chance to post over my coffee before comming to work but did want to say Hi and hope you have a great day. Keep listing your positives - sometimes your positives remind me that I have overlooked the same ones (beautiful day, etc) Keep your PMA up.
I decided I OUGHT to do something productive, well I SHOULD be working, but as I wait on screens to change, I decided I better get started on the questions Sage posted or I am going to end up behind!!
Pam
"We must be willing to let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us"
Quote: For some reason his post to Opt's thread depressed me, I need to try to figure out why.
Maybe the part about why is it worth the pain? I am not sure will have to read it again to see if I can identify for me what trigged the bad feelings
I think that there is a good possibility you are empathizing too much with Opts thread...when you do that you are FEELING like his remarks are directed specifically at you. Remember it is OPT's thread and David's post is geared just toward OPT...it has nothing to do with you personally :-) Read David's posts for incite into the man but don't ASSume that they are a negative reflection of your own R with him
Hugz, Zoo
"If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm."
- Mahatma Gandhi