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Veltis, welcome to the unpredictable world of the WAS, where the only consistent thing is inconsistency. One day she will seem like your best friend and the next day she will want to murder you in your sleep. I've been visiting this site since early March, and my time of 10 weeks in my little Hell is nothing. It's remarkable how many of us have heard the same words and experienced the same emotions, actions and behaviors by our WAS's. But here are some things I've learned from the great people on this site, and please forgive me for anything I say that you already know:

1. Time is your friend. Every minute allows you to improve yourself, even reinvent yourself...not for your W, but for YOU. I've read here that you should strive to become the man that any woman would be a fool to leave.

2. Patience...you need an infinite amount of it. I was like you: impatient and wanting to fix it NOW (I think most of us men are like that). Didn't work at all.

3. You have no control over her words, thoughts, behaviors or actions. She is the center of her universe right now; nothing you do or say will have any immediate effect on her. She will drift toward those people who validate and reinforce her current state of mind, and drift away from those who question her actions. Learn to focus less on her actions, and more on yourself.

4. PMA - Positive Mental Attitude. It is a must to maintain a PMA when dealing with your W. She will sniff out fear, desperation and sadness like a bird dog, and any of those traits will send her running. You want to be the man she wants to return to, not the man she feels like she has to return to.

180s, GAL, no talk about R or M...these are absolute truths. And the sad thing is, she may still walk. All of our WASs may walk away for good. But we're stubborn; we believe in our Ms and we will stand for them until there is nothing left to stand for. And even if that occurs, we will know that we gave it everything we could give.