I am so happy for you that your baby arrived safe and sound. I wish I was in your shoes because my WAW wants to have a baby but there's no way that talk can occur until my financial 180s are done and she sees that problem gone for good.
It's hard to get a read on him but at least he is stepping up to the plate by just being there. He's probably like me where guys get a sense of guilt/"crippling shame" (heard that in Church) if they feel like their the "Perpetrator" of the problems and they have a hard time opening up about wanting to make things right.
I think about some of the really intimate conversations that my waw an I used to have alone together where you really let your inhibitions go and really have a connecting, deep conversation. I actually dream about getting the financial crap behind us and her approaching me about a desire to work things out and having another intimate conversation where I am able to apologize for the mess I made and her accepting my apology know that it's in the past. I also know it will not happen right away and keep the expectation level at zero.
Understand that for guys those conversations are really much more powerful than any physical type of intimacy because we have to let the barriers down and that is just not how we're wired but we remember those moments. Keeping a barrier to physical intimacy is probably the best for now.
Just rely on your best judgement about slowing reeling him back in to R talk but on his timeline because that is where I'm at right now. He maybe right on the edge of having that conversation but like you said you're not a mind reader.
I spent time with 2 of my WAWs girlfriends this past weekend and one of them said that she felt like she was in a good place right now being alone and that I was doing the right thing with not contacting her about R talk. I know that if this gets done here soon (hoping next week) that she'll realize that some serious changes have in fact occurred but I can't run to her in joy and say "it finally got done, so all is well" because the wounds are still there.
Anyway, I'm happy for you and definitely keep your spirits up, remain positive, and keep the updates coming. They are encouraging .
Me: 42 WAW: 37 Kids: 0 Separated: 06APR13 M:7 Years, T:10 years WAW states she wants to "move on": 01JUL13 "Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, & slavery."
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