Just some thoughts for the day, the more I talk to friends and family about my sitch the more I hear about how often this WAW syndrome seems to happen. And surprisingly, nearly everyone I talk to says their WAW wanted to come back at some point.

Example #1- My own mom was a WAW, but I never knew until a few weeks ago that she tried to return. After a few months on her own, my dad came home to find her in his kitchen cooking a meal acting like nothing ever happened. They talked and she said she wanted to come home. But he had moved on and told her to get out.

Example #2- my stepdad's first wife was a WAW and may have been MLC. It took her 2 years to try and return, but he too had moved on and wasn't interested.

Example #3- a good friend of mine's W walked about 2 years ago. They never got a D and she has been trying to get back with him for around 6 months now, but he's on the fence about it.

Surprisingly I didn't know about any of the above until recent weeks. These are people I've known for decades! Anyway, hearing stories like these (especially from people close to me) gives me incentive to wait on my W a while.


Me: 60 w/ S18, D24, D27

M: 21 years; BD: 06-14-12; S: 09-10-12; D final: 03-17-14; XW:57