A few words of caution, the stages of MLC are to be used as a guide and they supposedly played out that way in HB's husbands MLC. Those stages are rewritten from Jim Conways version of MLC, which are rewritten from Elizabeth Kubler Ross's stages of grief. Admittedly HB's writing is far superior to the others however the stages do not always play out the way she describes and replay can last a VERY long time.
Item #2 PROTECT yourself, you say you don't need any money however, 6 years ago I said the same thing and this crisis did quite a number on me. I am starting to recover and I will be fine however, I now realize that I put my marriage over protecting myself and that may have been a mistake.
