Yeah, I guess you then become the WAS and they become the LBS. The thing is, after all this time DBing, you would know all the LBS tricks and would be very difficult to fool.
It’s funny that you posted this because it’s exactly how I see some of the advice/techniques I read about on this board. Tricks designed to fool our partners.
Maybe we’d have a better chance at building a genuine and lasting relationship with our spouse just by being our new and better selves and leaving the tricks behind.
M: A really long time. Crisis: 5 years. She's still worth it.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. -Viktor Frankl