"If you have noticed, I have lost ALOT of followers because I chose to take my own path here, inspite the advice I have been given..... funny thing is that I am taking the advice and putting my own spin on it. I would have thought it would have been recognized as strength... but, others prefer to see it as more "not listening"."
You've got this part twisted. People got frustrated because your "own spin" was contrary to what was advised which showed that you weren't listening or didn't understand what people were trying to tell you.
There are many of us here who have saved our marriages and stay to help others. We've seen MANY situations like yours and can say what has worked and what hasn't. To say to those people that they are wrong and you're going to do what you want anyway makes the posters feel like they're wasting their time when there are so many others begging for help.
And even more frustrating is when you get the SAME advice from one of your friends or acquaintences and you acknowledge that they have a great idea while in the past you dismissed it from the posters here.
M-43 W-40 2D - 9 and 5
Emotion, yet peace. Ignorance, yet knowledge. Passion, yet serenity. Chaos, yet harmony. Death, yet a new life.