She has already filed......or as good as. She has engaged lawyers to discuss property settlement negotiations, she can't file properly until February next year.

My next step would to start being firm and proactive, rather than reactive. And start the negotiations through lawyers and show her that I'm not going to be stuffed around anymore and she's kidding herself if she thinks it's going to be nice between us and not get nasty.

I know the believe none of what they say rule, but I don't think it applies for her in this case. I feel she has been planning this for nearly a year now, so she would never consider not going through with it. I have been foolishly holding out hope that she would see the light, but I need to move on as she has.
She even said if we had done marriage counseling this time last year, as she asked me to do, then we could have saved this. All too little too late now.


M 35
W 31
Separated 2/2011 but still together
Ended it 4/2011
Together 8 yrs
Married 3.5 yrs
Lawyers involved 6/2011