Thanks Azure for those words! I'm so relieved to hear all my navel-gazing is helpful to someone other than me!
Quote: You have bounced back from this latest in a way that is so impressive to me, with the balance you've found between detaching, caring for yourself and growing, and still DBing with your H.
Could use a little more detachment... but I am working on it.
Quote: It strikes me many times that he could be SUCH a lucky man, if he would stop getting in his own way!!
Wow. My C said the same thing about H "getting in his own way" -- that is his exact phrase, Counselor Azure.
I think we could both be lucky. I certainly wouldn't be fighting for someone who I didn't believe was worth all that.