Pie, you have been at it longer than me, and me myself at times feels like I can't stand it anymore, I want things to happen faster, I want changes I could see. But as the book says, patience in these times is a necessity, not a virtue.
The things our spouses say about the past, I could almost swear it was a script! My husband said once he is an jerk. I almost agreed but of course said "no, you are not!" and also said the same thing about my past faults "had i known, I would have changed, blahblahblah." so don't feel bad about it. I laughed out loud when somebody posted that our spouses act almost like they read from a script "how to do an MLC...WAS or whatever" but I will add, we also seem to be reading (and following) the script " how do rejected spouses, LBs or what not respond....."
If it were not so painful, I would find this whole thing ridiculous. So illogical. How could intelligent, rational human beings be so reactgive? We are no better than the dogs in Pavlov's experiment.
Me:49 H:45 D:12 M:14 T:18 Bomb: 6/26/10 EA: 9/3/10, fizzled out slowly, now ??? 11/5/11 Retrouvaille Finally piecing.... Its peaceful at last, but we got a looong way to go