Scylla, give it time and confidence and detachment will come more naturally. Envisioning a life being single and happy certainly helps.

I hear you on the dating sites. I'm not too worried about it as i know most of those things are a scam at best. I guess she has to learn what kind of dirtbags are out there.

Well, i finally told my Dad about whats going on this morning in a heartfelt email. He's out of country working and living so its hard to just call him (very crappy phone service). His reply was short but now my parents will know and not here it third hand from family.

My sister emailed me this morning saying how W removed her and all the family off her facebook list. I was not aware of that. I'm sure some of the extended family will ask why. So it goes. W is erasing links to me on a dialy basis.

W went to a C session this morning and made no bones about going to the bank and getting her own separate account besides talking about other things (possibly mortgage). Good for her, she will not get my help on that stuff. I will have to do the same real soon and just keep the joint account open in the interim. We will talk about the legal separation agreement this weekend and will get a sense of the urgency and fairness of this. I may opt to go fully with my own lawyer on this rather than share one, or at least have a lawyer look at the agreement once drafted.

I battle on and by the end of the weekend things should be clearer.