MLC IS long term so the strategy IS long term as well.
It is totally up to the poster to determine if their spouse is in MLC.
Because the strategies seldom work together for...confronting and making demands of the spouse and cutting them off completely. In MLC it is to be the better option and outlast their MLC.
In MLC you are dealing with a mental break in reality, illogical, in WAH or others you are dealing with a spouse who prety much said I am done, logical.
And while Mila has made some great strides in approaching this in an MLC manner, she still has a ways to go.
Mila IF your husband is in MLC you have a better chance of making it through not bitter by working on you and NOT listening to the whole poor you you have nothing to change advice.
You can always CHANGE, you can always GROW, you can always be the BETTER option.
BTW conflicting advice between different boards...might bethe reason you ARE having difficulties.
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