s4tk, one of my wife's biggest complaints has been that I am controlling as well. Can I ask what you have done to try to change this about yourself?

I was always the type that when she told me she was going out I would ask her a million questions, where are you going, who's going, when will you be back, etc.

And I was always the one to ask her who she was in the phone with, or who was texting her.

This past week I have done none of that. When her phone rang I have said nothing, and when she has gone out I have simply said have fun.

These are easy changes that I feel comfortable in making.

But I am trying to come up with something bigger. Something that will let her know that I am changing from being controlling. Is there something bigger, or is it just going to be more of an accumulation of the smaller things?


Me 37
W 33
son 3
T 4 years
M 1.5 years
BD 11/14 - W wants a divorce
11/17-current W wants a separation
currently living together

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