When is kindness enough?

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But I have to say that there were positive signs also. Maybe these did not allow me to see the warning signs.
Although chronologically not the first one, it was the strongest: the sex. My wife knew what it meant to me, knew it was my love language. The fact that we ML several times (but I cannot forget her reaction after the first time) convinced me we were on a good track.
There were also the talks. I think I never spoke so much in my life. I calculate that in one week we talked for more than ten hours only about our marriage. At some point she told me: "I did more therapy talking with you these days than in six months with my therapist". Other time she said: "My therapist will be so surprised with our reconciliation when I tell him."

So, when we separated at the airport I could never imagine this was the last time I would be saying good bye to my family still intact.