With All My Hopes and Dreams

[soldier]

Well we are drifting into the three week territory of having space from each other and it seems to me that my W gets more and more aggressive with me as the days go by. In the first week or so of our space, she put up a very cold front as if this was not bothering her at all. I have read that this is normal and so I knew to expect it. Recently, however, her demeanor has changed. It still isn't positive at all but not as nonchalant as before. She tells me that this is hard on her and that my D5 always wants to come back home and stay with daddy which makes me happy inside as my D5 is a large part of my world yet sad for my W at the same time. My W is a very good mother and her and our D5 have always been very close. I think my D5’s reaction to our current situation has been very frustrating for my W. My D5 seems to be blaming mommy for all the troubles and that really isn't true.

On the GAL front I was able to get in touch with an old war buddy and it looks like I will be making a trip out of state to visit him and his family sometime early May. I also picked up some new self-help books to read on that I found by digging through these forums. For those interested they are as follows:

Good husband Great Marriage: Finding the Good Husband in the Man You Married
The 5 Love Language Men’s Edition: The Secret to Love that Lasts
The 5 Languages of Apology: How to Experience Healing in All Your Relationships
Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal With People Who Try to Control You
The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing

I will give a better review of these books and my thoughts as I have time to read them. They should come in some time today and I am looking forward to diving in to them.