Sorry about the rapid-fire journalism mode. Just have to get it out there....
We went from "need time apart" to "get together for movies and dinner" to just ice cold business-only contact. And the only thing different is OM/EA/whatever-that-situation-is. And thanks to the notebook snooping incident (scroll back for details...), she *knows* I know this.... Just such a hopeless feeling.
I was actually doing fine the first couple of days because I *agreed* we could use a couple weeks apart. It's been a very stressful time living where we've been living, then trying to get this place ready to sell, and the new place ready to move into.
And I can't get the idea out of my head - what if I had just done the painting like we'd planned? I hired this guy (OM) and that's just killing me. :-(
