Rick, I've found that GAL helps with this. For me some of this feeling was jealousy. Here I am at home, sad, depressed, and miserable and there she is partying like a rock star, having the time of her life.

Now I have my own fun times that don't involve her. And, at least for my w, much of her fun is alcohol induced and I know later she feels regret and worry over her need to have alcohol involved all the time.

Lastly I try to see things from her eyes. She is under incredible stress. Ys, self-induced, but that's not how she sees it, right? So I understand that she needs to go have fun and blow off steam and unwind. And since I'm a big source of her stress (again, according to her worldview) then doing things with me certainly won't undo the stress.


Married 6 together 8
Me:38 W:31 second marriage for both
SS12, SD10, S6
Bomb: 9/8/11 (day before our 5 yr ann)
W moved out: 2/18/12
D final: 11/12/12
Share S 50/50. Spend as much time as I can with SS & SD