This can't be the end! #2

[Train]

Everyone's right, Barry.

I've had TWO BDs, eight years apart. And H said the VERY SAME THINGS both times:

"I am NOT coming back."
"Our M is OVER."
"I've been miserable for 10 years!"
"I don't want to BE here anymore."
"I don't love you anymore."
"I've NEVER been in love with you."
"I never wanted to marry you."

He was even more emphatic during/after BD2, saying he just KNEW he had made a mistake coming home the first time; in fact, he said he only came home after BD1 "out of convenience." And he said, after BD2, that there was NO WAY he'd make that "mistake" again. He may have had to "learn his lesson twice," but he had "REALLY" figured out "THIS time" that he was NOT going to stay M to me!!

And guess what, Barry? 2.5 months after making all those grand proclamations - 2.5 months after he SWORE he would never come back to our M and our family - he was ... wait for it ... back home. (It's been almost a year since BD2, and our M is happier - and STRONGER - than ever. It's been a hard, curvy, bumpy road, but we're committed to walk it together.)

I'm glad you're reading your book; it will help the things we've been telling you make more sense.

Man up, Barry.