My wife walked out 2

[Coconut]

I'm glad to hear about your GAL outings coming up. I've really enjoyed taking advantage of that site, I've done mediatation I found on there, play volleyball with a group on there, and will be going to my 3rd open mic night at a local pub tonight. I too am a bit of an introvert, and what I find works best is not waiting around for someone to approach me, I start chatting immediately when I get there, before I get overwhelmed, and can usually find one or two people that I can then hang out with for the rest of the night. I can't handle an entire night of small talk.

As for wanting to know what affected her so much, I will tell you that the WW mind skews history so they can justify their actions... Even now that she is back to reality, she still has a hard time getting the facts straight. One of my W biggest complaints was I never did anything, I didn't participate in any family activities etc.. So I sat down and started writing everything I could remember over the last two years, going through my calendar and pictures, etc to really figure out what I did and didn't do... Turned out I had been to about 70% of all outings, and the ones I didn't go to were mostly other kids B-day parties or expensive, so I figured why pay that much if I didn't really want to go. I told my W I only missed three of my sons wrestling meets over two years, and she didn't believe me (in her mind I had only gone to two or three), and I had a tough time proving that I had been to that many. They change reality to explain their actions, so I don't know if you'll ever get a real reason.

You mention wanting to give her books like DR, and i always told my self that if we ever got to the point of D I would email her a link to my sitch on here as either a LRT or revenge to show her how good I was doing with GAL...