CV... you aren't ready, yet... you're getting there... maybe...

You had some baby steps and one thing turned it all into a pointless endeavour. This is why you are the WAS. You feel overloaded and overburdened by keeping it all together. Staying in a pointless M with a man who just isn't stepping up to the plate.

Will he never "get it"?

No.

He won't.

Which is why the LBS generally says, "I never saw it coming!"

And the WAS says, "If only my spouse had been paying attention and seen that things were so wrong and done something about it."

No one ever said this was easy.

You had baby steps.

Don't let one backslide make you think you are back to square one.