My children know that my wife might never come back, but I will wait for her to come back (to her senses), not necessarily come back to my house with me. Also my wife responded to my children by saying that "she will come back when daddy is nice", so I think that deep inside her twisted mind, she knows that she will come back someday. As far as dating, I totally disagree. That goes against commitment and it won't help my wife ever come back to me if she finds out. I think people don't reconcile very often because the left behind spouse, often males, find a new girlfriend very quickly and that puts all the blame on the men. "See your dad abandoned us for another woman.....".
