JP, I think you are dead on when you said there is a place for each depending on the sitch. Every sitch is different, there may be some similarities, but they are each unique to the marriage and personalities.
I have decided to take the going dim and not being friends as long as she is continuing to see OM approach. Lol
I don't consider that my W is having an affair. I know this started after we were separated for sure and she had already filed for D
But what I will not put up with is her saying, "yes I think we need direction and i would like to go to a MC and work on things" and then lie to me about OM.
I'm sick of the limbo.
So I am going into "neighbor" mode


M 37 W 30
S 7
Together 10 years
Married 9 years
BD: 12/12/12(W filed same day)
I moved to apartment 1/11/13
W and S moved to MIL 1/11/13
Peicing: 6/3/13
Reconciled: 7/2013
BD2: 4/20/16
still working on it