If you're like me, the responses my wife gets now are not anything like I used to send her. They are always measured, always thought about a second time before sending or saying.
It's a lot of extra energy to expend. Fighting with yourself on what to say. Second-guessing if you're too detached, or not detached enough.
All I know now is that Cadet's words that your wife has given you the gift of TIME are words that ring more true every day. I want to become a husband, a father, a human, that I can see in the mirror every day and smile at. I used to hide in shame. That has changed. I am now determined to be happy, to do things for myself. I got the kick in the a** I needed.
M46, EXWW46 M15 T17 D20, S19, D13 M - Addiction since 1998 W EA/PA #1 2013/2014 W EA #2 June 2015... BD 1 Big D talk 9/15 BD 2 - EA/PA disc 10/30/15 Served D 1/22/16 Divorced 5/25/16 (yes, that fast!)