I greatly value your perspective too, jb as I would never talk to my male friends (in real life) about my sitch. Oh, and admittedly, after reading through all your threads, I've decided I need to give myself a break and get the summary of other sitches... or I'll be here all day. laugh wink

As for H following through on his C appointment, he's there right now so hopefully he will stick with it. And hopefully this C is not some bitter divorced "go ahead and be selfish and get a D if it's going to make you happy!" type. I've had friends who have been given some terrible advice by C's.

And yes, I will try and find a time when the kids and H are not around to call that MC. Friday might work as H needs to drop the kids off at their Grandfather's house. It's a few hours a way so I should be alone in the house as long as work doesn't "call". (I never know what I'm doing from one day to the next so it makes it very hard to plan more than a day in advance.)