Hey Denver, I have a quick question.. (might stir up another s-storm)
When you had your little fling - I think it was the women at the reunion? Did you consider yourself Married? was what you did cheating? Have you told your W everything about that and do you have transparency on the things that you did in the M? (like keeping in contact with your old GFs)
I don't mean to harp on this point and feel free to brush me off. But I'm just trying to get you see a little more of your W's perspective. Not to excuse it, but to "understand" as you put it.
Sometimes I think in piecing we can lose sight of our behaviors and changes. I mean you hear so many stories of "I'm back here again." It's like people who take Ads...after a while they stop taking them. their thinking is, "well, I'm not depressed as much anymore so I don't need them. " DUH! That's the the other side of the piecing coin.
Now, I'm jetting off to the Mile High City for a week.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. --Jean Jacques Rousseau.