Originally Posted By: Scylla_Charibdis
If I may Denver; perhaps you do not need to file D papers, perhaps negotiating a first step will do? Instead draw up a formal separation agreement as a sort of way station to D should it come to that?

Just a thought.


Thanks Scylla. I have considered that as well. I guess that I don't see me filing for a D as anything but me saying that I am done and wanting to move on with my life. And as I think about things, I guess that I can't really say that for certain.

Filing for D would also be done to see if it jars W back to her senses. But that is not a valid reason to file I don't think. Even if it was, if I did it, I had better be prepared to follow through. I don't see formal separation as having the same oomph that filing for D would in this regard either. I think that it would just give W more justification and rationalization to do what she pleases.


M 43
X 38
T 13
W moves out of home 11/2010
Roller coaster from hell 2/2011-5/2012
I request divorce 5/2012
W moves home 6/2012
Good time 7/2012 - 1/2015
I leave 3/2016
process of divorce