WHG, I spent some time reading your thread.. I'm sorry for your sitch! We have something very similar in that we have step children involved. Even though we are going through something that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy, you are very lucky you are still in contact with you children. My wife doesn't want me to see our daughter. She and I have a very special bond, have had it from the first day I met her. Even though she is not mine biologically, there has never been a day that I have felt that she isn't mine! I would sell my soul to know that I will have a role in my D's life in the future. I truly feel that wife feels so gulity about what she has done to me, that she doesn't want anything else to make her feel worse. It has been almost three weeks since i have seen D! When I have gotten the chance in last couple months, D clings to me more and more. I think this makes my wife worse about our whole situation.