See all my posts now, thanks!! looking for advice? I do feel a bit like a doormat, he comes home when he wants, but his visits are getting further apart. He acts like the good father, is nice to me and generally helpful around the house. He wants to go out to the bar almost everynight he is at home, he wants me with him so I go. but he continues to communciate with other womem (including the original ow) when myself and our daughters are a few feet away. I have tried to get him to talk and he tells me that he can't and that talking to me about us makes him afraid to come home. He says he is sad for all of us. When this all started he told me that he needed time to sort out his head, maybe years, maybe 5 years. In my less than optomistic moments I feel that he wants to live the life of a single man for 5 years or so and then come back to me. Sometimes I think he is having a great time but then out of the blue he messages me to say that bad decisions (financial) on his part has put him where he is and there is nothing he can do about it and that he needs my support. he does seem very fearful of himself at times. Any thoughts anyone?