Not to imply anything "good guy" about me, I came into the M with some baggage myself as well.
But looking back on the months or years before bomb drop, while W was planning her exit, I honestly expected her to insist on repair. EA and OM made it that much easier for her to take the other fork in the road. Those years I would often wonder why she was drifting away and seemed to make no effort.
I have said before how I accept my half of the blame for the failure of our M, but the more I think about it, the less I feel at fault, b/c on bomb day her mind was totally made up. That had to have been in the planning for a long time.
In hindsight, there was no amount of DBing I could have done to dissuade her, but it has helped me get a grip.
Me 53 XW 50 M 18 Years +2 S14 D19 Bomb 10-24-10 Served 1-27-11 Mediate 4-21-11 Civil D Final 6-2-11 No church anullment "A man is not finished when he is defeated, he is finished when he quits."