My wife said the exact same thing. It wasn't cheating and she didn't feel any guilt because she decided the marriage was over. I said that she caught me online chatting a few years before with 3 or 4 women and was upset. I said "but what if I thought the relationship was over then", then that was ok? She said, "No, you can't go back and forth. You didn't decide it was over and if you did, you stopped and came back. I decided it was over and had no intention of coming back." I said so If I said "I divorce you three times" could I have cheated? And what about the fact that you told me nothing during this time and you were lying about it and hiding it? Why would you have to hide something you had no reason to be guilty about? "Because I knew you would react the way you are reacting now!"
"Oh Really? Do you see how ridiculous this logic is? Then why not tell me it was over or you found someone else if you felt that way then?"
"I was't ready yet!"
Uncanny how the human mind works and how in any language anywhere in the word, in a similar situation, people will say the same things word for word like they are reading from a script. And just as sad, they are completely ignorant of what they are doing. You could show them a movie of people doing the same thing and they would say, "but that is not what I am doing. My situation is different!"
H:54 W:46 D:11 D:21 M:12 BD:1/15 In-house Separation 2/15 DB started 7/15, W sees consistency 9/15 Dropping the rope and having her leave 2/16, moves 5/16 Reconciliation 1/17 Obviously still struggling