Im glad to hear you came out of your MLC and that you are doing well. Im sorry you went through this ordeal.
If Im not mistaken, my wife is currently in "Replay". Since we've been seperated last Thanksgiving, she has had the freedom to come and go as she pleases. Im supporting her financialy and her mother is watching the kids when she goes out skating, clubbing etc etc. She has it very easy and is currently living in her home with our kids. She really cant have it any better. Yet, when she sees me, she has so much resentment,anger and hatred towards me that sometimes I feel like giving up and that theres no hope. Shes currently brining up stuff that happend at our PROM 20 years ago. She says that our whole marriage has been a lie and that Im the source of her misery. Im with my kids everyday and they love their time with me. Yet, she calls me a deadbeat dad, a loser and a poor excuse for a human being. WOW!
The very first day I stepped out of the house, she took down every picture of her and I and put it in my office room facedown. On her Facebook, she also took down every picture of us and glorifying her mother as her saviour! Also, she had put pictures of her and other men on her profile photo. When our freinds got back to me asking why, I was humiliated and embarassed. When I confront her about this, she claims that those men are just friends. Freinds or not, not every one would know this and the assume that there is something going on. She is still married and its VERY disrespectful. Yet, she feels like she is doing absolutley NOTHING wrong!
So, now that most of our freinds are gone from HER life, she claims that I turned everyone against her and she hates me for it. She wrote emails and texts messages to her best friends telling them to go F-off and that they are traitors.
When I research MLC and their testimonies, I keep reading the magic number 2. Most of them have said that their MLC lasted 2 years. Even from freinds that went through something similar, they told me that their turmoil was 2 years.
This replay is BRUTAL!Sometimes it feels like there is no light at the end of the tunnel. I have read that 80% of MLC'ers come back to their marriages. Is there any truth to this stat?
Me: 37 W: 37 Married Feb 14 1997 Seperated Thanksgiving weekend 2010 No divorce filed yet 1st born son:13 2nd daughter:9 3rd son:4 Trying hard to detach