Lesson, courtesy of my crusty old grandmother (may she RIP): NEVER put yourself into a situation you can't get out of.
SUPER DUPER WISE...and this was weighing HEAVILY on my mind when I decided to stay home for a year during our "reconciliation" efforts (I had to choose by March 1 and at the time, we were not steadily improving...because he was still in contact with OW!). I thought "what if we don't work things out and I am stuck alone raising the baby for a whole year? Noooo.....that won't happen......"
But now, our Hs have to be thinking of this in regard to D. Maybe in all of our cases, they stall in this decision because they don't want to be put in a situation they can't get out of. And that is something that makes me shake my head about stbxh...he is moving in with OW for a YEAR when he has admitted he has uncertainty about divorcing me! Where is his out? And what about Piano's H! Moving to the other side of the world to be with OW when his family with Piano has just started? And he has no job? No real plan? Where is his out?
Oh and when you described "climbing to the summit" and then discovering the A...very good analogy. I bet Piano can relate if the mountain was conceiving a baby...in fact all of us LBSs who were pregnant when our H's walked away!
me,34 exH,34 S,16 months S:3/31/09-left for OW started DBing 10/09 d final: sometime 10/10 current: http://www.divorcebusting.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2022856&page=1 met in 2004