Portia, I’m so with you here. I’m also on a back burner or slow cooker. I don’t think I will burn, but I will dry out from inside. I get this “give it up” phrase a lot recently from my friends and relatives. I can’t even mention H anymore, even in a neutral kind of way, I get slammed with this “advice”.
I would also very much like to know what others would do in the situation like that, since I’m in a very similar one. I think I can kind of answer the question about what my H needs from by doing touch and goes. He told me at BD that he didn’t want completely lose me out of his life. I think this is what he’s been doing, living his life, doing what he wants, probably dating, but at the same time stringing me along.
M:50 H:52 S28 (my S from previous marriage) M:17 + 3 BD: 06/12 S: 06/12 - H works in another state