"I wanted to be closer to my wife and family but did not know how."
In my sitch when I wasn't with my W and kids, I dug into several relationship books as well as DR to help me re-establish or learn to re-establish a healthy relationship with them. For me, GAL was a period of learning as well as doing.
M-43 W-40 2D - 9 and 5
Emotion, yet peace. Ignorance, yet knowledge. Passion, yet serenity. Chaos, yet harmony. Death, yet a new life.