And your convo with your MIL is right, the less trapped WAS feels by you, the more she feels you have opened her "cage" to let her fly away, that is when things begin to get real.
Keep doing the good job on yourself, and keep letting her be herself.
Me-53 W-49 D22,D18,D15 T-Since-12/2001 Married-9/2004 She Moved Out-5/28/2010 Piecing start-04/2011 Now-together Thread http://www.divorcebusting.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2079304