I am sorry you have decided to leave the board, but it is your decision and I respect that. I wish you and your xw luck on your respective journeys and where ever it takes you both.
The first step is asking for help, the second is accepting it. I could not have got this far without the help from everyone here, on occasion I have been given hard to hear advice and taken it, they know this journey better than anyone else, they have lived it and survived.
Cld, I know that you feel very strongly about holding your values and the vows you gave to your w when you married, I admire that in you, I certainly did not have your conviction, just followed advice and got on with my life, leaving h to get on with his, it just happened that he came back into mine along the way. May I ask - are you religious?
Cld, stop, take a minute and a breath to re compose yourself from what has been going on with your thread and then start over. Look in the mirror, who do you see, do you like the person looking back at you?
Whatever you are here for, if it is for genuine help or to do a research paper or troll, please remember, I have done nothing unkind to you, I have given you the answers you asked for, I have opened my world up to you, please respect that.