Now that is a great post! I am glad you had a great weekend and reconnected with an old friend.
Tough love stinks, no? LOL! Giving it stinks and getting it stink even more! My tough love 'queen' was a lady named Annie. I will NEVER forget her. Her H was a mirror image of mine and she had put up with it for FOUR years. I used to sit at my computer and sob at what she was telling me but deep down I knew she was right or at least on to something. And sometimes in terrible situations it is not a good feeling to be right. Not at all.
I understand all of *this* doesn't just go away. Hell, a few days ago out of the clear blue my H texted me and asked me to have dinner. I mean... really? Here he is now LIVING with his mistress and texting his W for dinner. It's too stupid to even talk about. And yet two years later Annie is still right on the money!
I know, it's all horrible but sometimes the best things come from the most hideous situations.