Originally Posted By: Beatrice
you wife is a fragile and damaged person. Someone you took on and loved deeply.


Yes it is true. I am not saying I don't have compassion for her.

What I have learned is that allowing that to feed a decision to let myself open up to a process

...to let myself enter into a relationship that is dysfunctional in the sense that I am the fixer, the rescuer, the one always giving more that 50% to the effort.

Well I have learned that can be very unfulfilling and full of dispapointment and heartache. Very painful.

It is not a M. It is one person dragging the other. It is co-dependent.

If that is the case (and I am not sure it is or it is not) I know that I cannot engage in that because it will not serve me or her.

Right now I do not have that information. I know she won't ask for the chance because of the damage she has felt she has done.

So the question is do I risk myself and ask to see her again?

What do I have to lose? I have to answer that.

Brook thanks for stopping by. I will take it slow....


My goal is to some day be the person my dog thinks I am