Separation at 17.5 months

[adinva]

Thanks UF, that is good input. It's worth exploring. Sometimes but is just a conjunction that is necessary in a sentence where the second part is an exception from the first part. You can't expel it from your language wholesale without having to do some weird verbal gymnastics.

I like skiing but my husband doesn't.

But - you're right. I'm sorry but, is another way of saying I'm not really sorry that much.

There is so much that turns up in the sitches I read here, mine included, where the lack of honest clear communication starts problems, makes them worse, and keeps us in denial about them.