Keep Wearing Wedding Band? [Thread #6]

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Thank you for your friendship: JR, CT, AP, Coly, LT, Sara, Jug, Mules and others whom I am forgetting.

I'm frustrated and a little puzzled that this web forum, in which anonymity and privacy is essential, does not offer a way to edit your own posts. I hope MWD and her staff rethink this issue more carefully.

I never thought I'd be where I am now.

Last night I (re-)watched "Saving Private Ryan," which -- despite a spattering of the usual Hollywood syrup in a few places -- put my current troubles in perspective, and highlighted the absurdity and arbitrariness of fate, as well as the importance of strength and honor. Actually, I think it's strength *from* honor, strength that is simply trying to adhere to your own principles while struggling with your emotional pain and impulses.

I don't know if I'm doing everything right. In fact I know I must not be. But I am trying to do the right thing, for my kids, for myself, and even for my W.