Hi Raine - I am in somewhere in the MLC labyrinth living with a MLCer who has not moved out. Not exactly the life I had sketched out for myself . . .
I read all your threads many moons ago. Thank you so much for coming back and posting. I understand why you were hesitant to post an update for those of us looking for "success stories." But to me, you were a success as you were going through it! I marveled at the fact that you were pregnant, had 3 kids, a spouse in MLC and yet had your act together. To me, you were a super hero, complete with cape and tights.
It's true that we all start off here trying to save our marriages. We think that's the pot of gold. But ever so slowly the vets re-direct us to saving ourselves. And therein lies the true success story. So many in your position would get lost in all this, whatever "this" is that we're all going through.
Thank you for posting from the other side of all this. May we all meet you there.
Bea, if you are reading I want to thank you for your support early on. I know you don't come here often (so I will hijack here) but your advice helped me so much. I think of you often.
Me 41, H 47, M 15 yrs, S11, S13 BD 1: 11/4/14 we work on it; really I pretzel myself BD 2: 3/31/15 H goes down to "dorm room" 8/15: H back to MBR 10/15: H back in dorm room 1/18: H files, now divorced