Update:
My 3 weeks business trip is drawing to a close, and I return home the day after tomorrow. Then the fun begins.

Had no contact with W before last night. Talked to several friends yesterday who all report W serious focus on the D. This is where she is going. Spent yesterday accepting that fact seriously for the first time, I think. I am getting D. Don't want it, but cannot do anything about it. Have a L appointment on Thursday. W is using the D, and the issues surrounding it (financial split, dividing home items, finding a new house) to focus all her energies to help her out of her depression. Says "she needs to do this for me". Friends say she is being very selfish and is only focused on herself. So I resigned myself to the inevitable.

Then she called last night. Sounded heavily medicated, with slow speech. She recently adjusted her meds, which were really screwing her up. Small talk for a while, then she tells me we have a L/mediation appointment on Friday (day after I return). Talks alot about herself. Says she is sorry she took so long to call, it is good to talk to me, etc. Wants me to call her on the return trip. She sounded very, very messed up and still very confused. She has been told she is reacting this D situation in an unusual fashion, heavily, heavily emotional, very concerned about me, can't talk to anyone about M without crying. Says she has not thought about the trip she is taking next week because she is moving one day at a time. She says she has to think about staying in the house when I get back, because I make her anxious.

She is leaning heavily on the OM, who she maintains is one of her only friends, for emotional support. I know he has other ideas.

Is this all 'normal' behavior? Some insight would be appreciated.


H 51, W 46
no kids
T 22 years
M 17 years
ILBNILWY 2/10
1st D talk 6/10
partial recovery
W files D 5/11
long distance separation 8/11
moving forward on D 10/11
legal separation complete 1/2012