NYGal...just remember, nothing is forever.

Back last year, H asked me to go visit family and "let him see how he felt" about things. So I packed up the kids and went to stay with family in another state. After I left, he "wasn't sure" he wanted me to come back at all, so I waited and waited...not wanting to push. Finally, my goodwill ran out and I told him I was coming home whether he liked it or not because it was my house as much as it was his. I returned home to find he had packed up every bit of my belongings without even telling me...had moved my clothes out of my dressers and everything of mine out of the bathroom. He even took down pictures and decor I had hung up throughout the house and packed up my office. To top it all off, he even changed the locks on the house. He tried to scrub my very existence out of his life, saying he "needed to see what it felt like."

It's been four months since I came back. Since then, he filed for divorce, then had second thoughts. We started talking again...became friendly...had a wonderful Christmas together as a family. The last time *I* mentioned moving out per the terms of our separation agreement, he asked me to wait.

Today is hard, and nothing will change that for you. But it's not the end. Things can turn around and change drastically in no time at all. Hang in there!!


Me: 43, Him: 40
Married: 21 years