I think I may have been confusing detaching with reducing contact. I'm coming to see that detaching and contact are not necessarily the same, and the more effective ways to detach do not directly affect the amount of contact.

Detaching is not about how many words you say, but what emotions you communicate to your W. So, simply reducing contact does communicate something. But a more effective way to detach is to keep up roughly the same amount of contact as before, but demonstrate through those channels of communication that your emotions are detaching from the old W and divesting from the old marriage.

I'm not sure exactly how to do that. I will have to ponder. I welcome all-a-y'all's thoughts on this.


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