Albac, so much of your struggles sound like mine. I keep telling myself the only way there's even a slim chance of getting my W back is to just forget about getting my W back. It's a paradox, but I think it's true. Some switch was flipped in my W's brain, and ain't nothin I can do myself to flip that back. If we detach and GAL and move on, that switch might flip, but we also may have moved on too far past our W's. But that also says a lot about what a marriage is -- it's not just predetermined chemistry. Love in a marriage is sustained and nurtured through time and effort. So as we step away from our old marriage, from our old W's, as we spend less time and effort on it, the love we felt for our W's will fade.


Me: 50, MLC/WW 45
Young kids
Nov 2015: BD1
Apr 2016: BD2
Jan 2017: W filed
Feb 2017: D final