Beatrice,

Thank you for reaching out to me. I appreciate it very much. You have some good comments about the situation with our boys and my WAH. My sons are 17,20 and 21.

I have talked a bit about the MLC with them. My H was diagnosed with prostate cancer three years ago. He is doing ok after his surgery. But then a year after his diagnosis, his brother died of kidney cancer. We are also getting close to being empty nesters. There are a lot of triggers for him for the MLC. I know that mortality issues are playing into his state of mind. He talks alot about it.

Thankfully he does not seem to be taking it out on our boys, excpet to bail on them and leave home. He is hoping they will all be a part of his "new life". I believe he really would like this all to be very groovy, open minded, new "arrangement" but life goes on kind of thing. It makes me sick to my stomach. Do I have to be friends with him right now? I want to be his friend, but only if I am also his wife. I think this all sounds very immature of me, but it is what I feel right now.