It has only been a month that my W and I have been working on piecing (if you can even put a start date on it at all).
You guys are just getting started .
Originally Posted By: Denver_2012
But it is encouraging to see someone who has been doing it for as long as you have
Thanks. When I got started here I spent hours reading the threads of men who had succeeded in what I wanted to do i.e. getting their wives back and keeping them back. There weren't all that many back then but I did find some. The posters David and Nathan come to mind. There have been quite a few others since. These are the ones whose acts you want to follow.
Originally Posted By: Denver_2012
...and who still remembers the things that he learned.
With this, you have to look at it with the perspective of permanently changing your habits and your mindset.
When I got started, about a month after my wife left, I looked for examples of men who had made permanent changes to their lives, whether that was in marriage or anything else. It's like someone who has been fat all is life and decides he wants to be slim for the rest of his life. Well, it doesn’t take a genius to figure that permanent changes in one’s habits, thought patterns, beliefs, self image, attitudes and other things are necessary if this outcome is to be real.
After a while, new habits, attitudes and thought patterns become habitual and automatic which is good news.
Other than the guys who had done what I wanted in the marital sense, these guys were also a massive inspiration to me:
Michael Santos (prisoner and reformed drug trafficker) Richard Jensen (reformed drug addict and criminal turned wrestling champion) Rob Cooper (former morbidly obese taxi driver who lost over 200lb, kept it off for over 20 years and who has since become a successful author, adventurer and businessman)
I have had a brief read of your threads Denver and think you have a great shot at this. Make the most of it, take your time (there is no way we can rush any of this) and make the choices which will make your marriage awesome.
cheers,
GH31
EDIT - FYI, it's not usually ok to post links outside DB...generally frowned upon, however, : ) How's about a warning?
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Me: 46 W: 46 T: 23 M: 20 DS12 DD11 DS5
W left: 01/28/08 Discovered OM: 02/26/08 W back for 9 days: 04/08 W returned 05/21/08 EA/PA - 01/08-07/09 W's MLC 2008-2014 (realised this much later)