There are ways of interacting that don't involve speech. By body language and affirmation, nodding, listening, kind smiles.
A couple of techniques strike me, to soften your stance and feel at ease you could try projecting love and care from your central core. I call it rainbow strength, it gives the other a warm sensation and softens your body language. The half smile technique for strength for you could help too.
As you are detaching and observing more, then I think in house S is becoming easier (note I am not saying easy), in your sitch then I think I would continue with it until I (Mutatio) am ready to move on. Clearly your WW is resentful but that may ease over time. There is a little of early NH sitch echoing for me.
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Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose. V 64, WAW
