Linda, I have the experience with the divorced friends, they are the once who are the most bitter. I try to avoid any kind of conversation about my sitch with them. I also try to ask other friends who give the advice to move on, what they would do in my situation. I paint the picture for them with their spouses and make them think, and quite often they would back off. It is always easier to give an advice to someone else.
I think it is a good idea to hug him goodbye as if you are a wife who he loves. It actually might be very close to truth anyway. The things he is doing for you at the house right now show that he still considers himself a married man. This trip for him is kind of outside of a real world, I’m sure he is justifying it as if it is not a big deal and he is just going there to meet with the friend. It is a twisted justification, but this what he wants to believe. He is just like a kid who knows that he does something wrong, but keeps justifying his actions because he wants it so badly.
Wonka, did you mean “Matreshka” doll?
M:50 H:52 S28 (my S from previous marriage) M:17 + 3 BD: 06/12 S: 06/12 - H works in another state
