Some wisdom that another board poster shared with me as I was coming up to my D date... "It's never over until they say 'I do' to someone else"...
so it will feel like the clock is running out but it's an arbitrary clock. Sort of like the fiscal cliff It's real, it can happen, but the next day things aren't all that dramatically different.
Married 6 together 8 Me:38 W:31 second marriage for both SS12, SD10, S6 Bomb: 9/8/11 (day before our 5 yr ann) W moved out: 2/18/12 D final: 11/12/12 Share S 50/50. Spend as much time as I can with SS & SD
It's real, it can happen, but the next day things aren't all that dramatically different.