Ironically, Starsky, I have never seen that movie - but it was one of my wife's favs.
Thanks for chiming in on my blurb above ^^^^. (Sorry to hi-jack LITB). "This is THEIR journey, not ours" is probably a good mantra for me to keep. I really struggle with detaching - though I am getting better with help from the folks here. Like I said, I always think in good times I am one brilliant utterance away from getting my W to have the "AH HA!!" moment where she realizes she wants me in her life.
I know I can't "say" or "do" my way out of this - but I think that it helps that I have tucked away my anger and have sucessfully learned to differentiate between her and her L. I also think it helps that I have managed to avoid fights and the "bait" to get into them for months....even when she is going off on me. Anger, it seems, is easier for me to manage and contain that love. Odd, no?
Anyhoooo....sorry for the interruption, back to LITB's regularly scheduled programming.