AS, I'm glad you brought up the "family time" thing.
My WAS wants to have "family day" every Sunday together.
On the one hand it feels weird; on the other it feels natural. For now I'm choosing to "allow" this, but if OW comes into picture I'll have to really rethink this.
We are doing Thanksgiving and Christmas day together "as a family", but as I said to you before you are MUCH further in the DBing process than I am...so maybe I'll be there for Easter (?)!
My w and I have been having the occasional family day and it made me happy at first but it started taking it's toll on me. I wasn't able to detach and got my hopes up as we were behaving like a normal family on these days. W even admitted on several occasions that she'd had a good time, initiated more family days, came around more often, talked more openly. She "liked" family pictures posted on FB, told me she enjoyed talking to me and one day, I just had to ask and Booom! Back to square one.
Just be careful and don't expect anything, no matter what it looks like. I think WAS do it for their own benefit. they do miss the family life, but they don't want the responsibility that comes with a family. Mind you, in many ways, I did enjoy them as well as it gave me a chance to show off my 180s, and notice she did! Good and bad I guess.
Freshman Class of 2012
M-49 W-42 1D-10 T 10 YEARS M 9 YEARS EA/MLC 07/2010 Separation 28/05/2012 PA confirmed 31/07/12 W Asked for D 31/07/12 D on and off the table since then
