Thanks, Ken. Great advice!

Another almost laughable comment my W made to me (it doesn't look like I mentioned it above) from that conversation (after saying that she could "wait forever") was that my W indicated that the only reason she agreed to mediation was because I suggested it...

Not that it matters, but I'm thinking... WTF...? She was really hoping to do absolutely nothing and that I would just go away and agree to access to kids when she allowed...?

Or what...? Is she going to say that the only reason she agreed to a D was because I asked for it...? She did tell me until last april that she didn't want a D... I guess the truth was not that she wanted to think about it... rather, that she just wanted to wait forever and cake eat...

Well... of course... She gets to be the victim...

Anyhow, no big deal, not worried about it. It's just a shame that she's passive-aggressive in this... She certainly has a chance to tell me she does not want a D, but she WILL have to follow that up with showing me that she wants to R.

I think I do have a possible option, to go with legal separation rather than D.

The upside is, we remain M so that the paperwork does not have to be processed unless it MUST be processed...

The downside to legal sep is that I have to choose whether I feel OK with entering any new R... as the M vows are very important to me.

So if I go with leg sep and then decide I want to pursue a new R with someone, I would then have to file D...

So I guess my path is pretty clear...