Well it means different things to different people, but to me it's letting go of your spouse completely. It's living your life and letting them live theirs. It's being unaffected by what they say or do any more than you would be if a casual neighbor said or did those things.
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Although I was prepared for his I really wasn't. I had a glimmer of hope that he would beg me to stay with him.
So you had expectations of a certain outcome. Personally I would say that you have not detached or dropped the rope, because you were hoping this would work as a strategy to get you two back together.
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That obviously didn't happen. So what do I do now?
DBing- detach. GAL. Work on yourself. Leave him to live his life.
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I feel like it's still not over. How can two people love, respect, and admire each other so much and not be together?
It is absolutely over. MWD says in DR that you have to accept that your current M is dead and gone. What you're striving for is not to get the love back, it is to make yourself into the spouse only a fool would leave with the hope of attracting your H back some day into a NEW relationship and NEW marriage.
