Originally Posted By: futureunknown
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make a real committment to reconciliation


I know this is vague, and I do have a list of what constitutes a "real committment", but I wanted to keep my statement to her brief. If she's interested enough to ask, then I can go into further detail:

1. Give our reconciliation at least six months
2. No dating others
3. Weekly dates with each other
4. Go the MC together if either one wants to
5. Give each other time and space if requested


Future, I think your proposed "counteroffer" is a good one, although I'd ditch #5 ("space" to someone who's wayward just gets filtered as "I need space in which to date others, unencumbered.")

In fact, this is pretty much the same thing my wife countered with, and that I agreed to. After HER being the one, for over a year, that wanted to predicate a separation on us dating others, and me saying it was a "dealbreaker," suddenly she was HORRIFIED that I actually agreed to it! So she countered with "let's date each other, but only exclusively," which (I think, to our mistake) lasted only 2-3 weeks before we moved back in together.

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