Oh, believe me, I flip-flop between optimism and pessimism, too. Some days, I think, "In my heart, I feel that she will realize everything one day, and we will both be better for it." Other days, I think, "I think she might end up with him for good." All I know for sure is that I don't see a lot of positive statistics for A's lasting or working out -- almost every one I read about eventually came to an end. I'd like to keep my hopes up, but I also don't want to raise them in case things really are over. It's like my mind knows how much that outcome would hurt, so it keeps throwing it up just to make sure that I don't think that a happy outcome is the only outcome.
She sent me the sep. papers a couple of days ago. Got them in the mail today. Will be taking them to court on her behalf in a couple of weeks. We'll see what happens next…