Help & Advice Needed Please (Thread 3)

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Well W replied to the email and it was basically what I was expecting. Although there was a certain clarity too it all.

Here is her response:

"
Thank you for your email. I too have been thinking a lot about the future.
We will always have a relationship because of Son, just a different relationship. I agree that Son is growing up fast and from things he has said recently I feel he is beginning to understand and adapt to our new way of life. He does seem to be more settled and content here during the past few weeks and his confidence has really grown.
I'm glad that you feel that you can have a new life and that you have plans for the future. I too have thought long and hard about our family and marriage but I know that I cannot come back. I feel that I have done all I can and I know that to enable you to move on you had to ask these questions.I appreciate how difficult it must have been to write the email. I have treated what you have said with respect and thought hard about my response.
I too have memories of good times as a family and between us we can still give Son happy positive memories just in a different way. I will always be ready to discuss any issues regarding his well being. It means a lot to Son that we can still communicate and be with him together, but I feel it's wrong to give him hope that things may return to the way they were. He's a wonderful boy and he knows we both love him and whatever happens in the future that will never change."

As expected it sounds very final and very clear - perhaps it really is time to move on.