Just want to thank folks for their posts here. It is inspiring to see other folks who have walked through this nightmare define a successful path forward for them. I am just starting the divorce process after accepting my efforts at DBing aren't enough to save my marriage. It feels like I'm on the slopes of an emotional Mt. Everest. My goals: Today: breathe in and out. This week: fill out divorce papers. This month: see my husband likely for the last time, and feel some degree of closure in that, file for D This year: dis-entangle myself financially and legally, finish grad school Some day: look back on this experience with pride that I fought as hard as I could and loved as fiercely as I could and without the pain of failure and loss. Always: to live fully, to laugh loudly, to give freely, to breathe deeply