I just read a post from Jack 3 Beans that he had written to Faith about not pushing forward with his D, which is 8 days away. I am not sure how Faith can apply the brakes w/o looking weak and indecisive to his W and what methods he could deploy to successively stop the D.

I am at the same place. I don't want a D, but the advice is to protect myself financially and that if I love my W then I need to give her what she wants and let her go. So now I retained a L papers being processed and I am on the slippery slope of a D. I hope that I can find some toe holds and finger grips on the way down the D slope.