I believe we are piecing...

[LovinUs]

We are doing well, but are in a strange place. My wife says we are still together, still committed and married, and working on our relationship, but she wants to maintain separate homes. They call it LAT, or living apart-together. She said she will not put herself in a position where she is so vulnerable as she was while living in my house, and that she needs her own space and some time to herself. She said she cannot say she wants to remain like this forever, only that it is what she needs now. She is living in her house, and I live in mine - about 5 miles from each other.

We go to couple's therapy every 2 or 3 weeks. We are getting along very well and doing so much better with our communication. We text constantly during the weekdays and speak on the phone on the evenings we are not together. We spend every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday together, including nights. We shop, cook, watch movies or TV, work on home projects - at both places - go out on dates, etc. Things are actually going very well and we are closer than we have been in a long time. We had a lovely Valentine's Day and celebrated our Anniversary this past weekend, also.