Keep Wearing Wedding Band? [Thread #6]

[JRuss]

FG -- I know as well as anyone that it's hard not to let W's moods impact yours, but try not to let it. I still sometimes come back to that imagery you, me and lt used to kick around -- like our W's are some sort of exotic form of wildlife, and we're the guys with the Nature shows observing them and their ridiculousness. Because that's what it is. I mean, really. You're going to pout and cover the home in dark clouds because it's just so hard and terrible being married to a guy who provides, is great with your kids, is thoughtful, intelligent, kind, patient, keeps himself in shape, and has bent over backward to improve and save the marriage? It'd be preposterous if there weren't feelings and lives involved, but there are. So this exercise only goes so far, but sometimes it helped me in that worst/most painful moment when my thoughts were otherwise kicking my ass.