My W actually told me that she wouldn't move back in to our house. My XW1 and I bought it together like 11 years ago, and W has been gone almost 7 years, but she said she wants something "new and fresh" that would be ours; so I sorta get where your W is coming from with the new start thing.
I even recall thinking that a house was a house, but every woman I mentioned that to completely agreed with W - even the ones who thought her WAS actions were nuts.
