Second MLC?? Is that possible?

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I responded to him, after about 18 hours, and extended an olive branch to calm him down. I told him about the things our employees said about him and what they say he had said about me. I told him I didn't know who or what to believe. I told him I was willing to talk with him and also told him that I didn't want him to feel like he had no home to come back to and that he could stay here if he wanted, but if felt uncomfortable, that I would understand.

He has seemed to calm down a lot and sent an email thanking me and saying he wanted to talk and was looking forward to seeing me.

He comes in tomorrow and I have no idea what to expect. But, I'm not as apprehensive about seeing him. I talked with my therapist about all this and she gave me some good pointers about relaying my boundaries to him. So, I am in a good place right now.

I feel like some of our employees have fed me stuff that may or may not be true, but have essentially kept me in emotional turmoil because they don't like him - more specifically, think they can run the business better than him -- and have tried to play me to get what they want. That is, they would prefer he stay away.

I know he is certainly no angel, but he is a smart business man. So, I now have the issue of trying to figure out who is telling the truth.

My plan is to make it clear that I will not tolerate adultery and if he wants to continue to pursue the business overseas, I cannot sit here while he is gone wondering what he is doing and who he is doing it with -- my boundary. He had said about a week ago that he was trying to decide what to do with the business over there, but I don't feel like I can contribute to that decision. It has to be his ... he has to figure out his priorities. I do know that if our roles were reversed, he would never tolerate me spending half (or more) of my time away from home. He would give me an ultimatum ... Him or my business. I have no intention of giving him ultimatum, but he needs to realize that things cannot go on as they have.

We have been "email fighting" for weeks and I finally took the high road and tried to open the lines of communication. It seems to have worked.

He will see a lot of differences in me when he gets back - the biggest - I've been driving his high-tech sports car. That would be the one that I was afraid to drive because it is "high-tech" and I didn't want to be the fist one to get a scratch on it. But, I realized, no matter what I do to it, we are insured! Go me!