Here is the draft of a letter to W I wrote some time ago. I am thinking of hand writing it to her in the New Year.

Dear xxxx

4 years ago I wrote you a letter from my heart. This is another from my heart.

Over the last few years things have improved between us and I am a better man and I have you to thank for that. You opening my eyes to the miserable man I had become and changed me for good. Even now during these times I am learning to be a better man.

Since 2012 there have been obvious flaws in our marriage. I understand that it must be hard for you to express how you feel given my past history but it saddened me that you could not bring these fundamental issues to me so we could work on them as a team. I buried my head in the sand as I saw other aspects of our marriage working so well.

I see myself as a husband who supports his wife through all aspects of her life, work, family, socially, friends, culturely and in health and sport etc. I know I can still improve in some areas and I am working on those.

I knew in my heart all was not right and we didn’t address those issues. Real Love is real giving without expectation – that is the path we should have taken. You know that I love you. I show it in many ways. It takes two for a marriage to work and also for a marriage to fail and we have both tried to improve our marriage and work at it but have fallen short. We asked for change but didn’t sit down and discuss issues, to really open up to each other about our true inner needs and feelings.

We have 15 years invested in our relationship and marriage and our boys who are growing into beautiful examples of the qualities of us both. I truly believe we can have a good and lasting marriage, one which we can nurture and grow. If we show Real Love through acceptance, forgiveness and real giving and make vows to open up to each other and agree how to move forward then both of us would cherish our marriage. We would learn from our mistakes and move forward however this turns out.

I ask you to invest a small amount more in our marriage to see if we can make it work. It would work if we are fully committed to the task. I’m not saying it would be easy in fact it would be hard.

We have so much in common, from our boys to our tastes in food and art, culture, leisure time, a healthy lifestyle and the same moral values to give to our boys.

Sometimes the good times are hidden in the fog of the bad. When the fog lifts the good times shine through.

Love
xxxx

I am looking for opinions on content especially from female members of the forum. This is a aimed at a Walkaway Wife not a Wayward Wife.

Last edited by isittoolate; 12/15/15 04:05 PM.

Me49 W45
T15 M13
S11 S8
BD 11/15/11 & 3/27/12
Moved out 4/9/12 Moved back 4/23/12
W working on US 5/20/12 Now Piecing!
May-Oct14 drifting
Dec 14 W agrees to more QT
BD Oct15 ILYBINILWY
W filed 1/25/16