Wow. It's been over a month since I've posted here. Time flies when you're living life!

I wanted to share a few recent developments that I am hoping some folks here can help provide some perspective on what direction this whole rollercoaster ride might be headed. I'll try and keep this somewhat brief.

If anyone here remembers, my wife moved out [by her own choice] over a year ago, and has been living in a one-bedroom apartment with our daughter ever since. As we all know, now is tax time. Welllll, since I stayed in the family home, and have been paying mortgage/property taxes as an individual/head of household w/dependent (our son), it turns out I will receive a very healthy tax refund. On the flip side, my wife will end up owing Uncle Sam a substantial amount in taxes. To put it blunt, reality, well, the financial part anyways, just up and smacked her in the face. I've been struggling to keep afloat financially throughout the last year. Long story short, my wife needs turned to me for help to pay off her tax bill.

I'm sure there will be varying opinions here as to whether or not I should help her. I've already agreed to help her because:

* She's still my wife
* It's who I am
* Plain and simple, she needs help

In any case, I guess I just wanted to share this first to kind of set the context for other things that I've noticed over the last couple of months or so. Another surprising development is that my wife approached me recently about enrolling our daughter in a Christian school. I don't know if anyone recalls, but I believe I posted back around Christmas that my wife took our daughter to Catholic Mass on Christmas Eve while my son and I were on a ski trip. (I asked her numerous times, she didn't want to go on the trip...) Anyhow, that really surprised me because my wife has NEVER been religious person AT ALL. At the very least, that experience told me she is/was still struggling very deeply with the confusion/depression. Fast forward to the present. Now, she wants to enroll our daughter in a Christian school. This is equally, if not more, surprising. To put this in better context, as some here may remember, my wife grew up in China, completely without religion [Western or otherwise] in her life. When we married she agreed to become Baptized into the Catholic Church. But, I believe it was more to please me than anything else since, aside from our wedding day and X-Mas Eve 2010, she has never attended Church! Now, we are about to enroll our daughter in a Christian school where the teacher teach the children to memorize Bible verses, and she is okay with that. To paraphrase her recent words, "That's fine for me. Probably she can learn something..." For me, it's like "Whoa!!!!! What Parallel Universe have I just entered??!!" Finally, in other smaller news, when we visited one school recently I had called her on the way to the school because I had gotten lost (she was already there waiting for me...). While I waited on the phone for her to ask an administrator for directions, I here her tell the lady, "My husband is lost. Can you help him get to the school?" This was pretty surprising to me because she typically [well, during the last 9-10 months or so anyways] refers to me by name or 'him' when referring me to other people.

So, no, she hasn't apologized, tried to make amends, expressed remorse, or any of that yet. But, her actions [continue to] suggest that she is moving in a positive direction. Of course, at least that's what I hope. During the last couple of months she has begun to talk in the future tense a lot more, and with an emphasis on "We" and "Us" instead of her 'MLC typical' reponse of "I" or "Me, Me, Me!!!"

Any opinions??? Thanks for taking the time to read... :o)