Newby here . . . (Thread 7)

[JRuss]

Oh, and I very much agree on the 1 house thing. But it takes two to want that. If you have one half of the couple motivated by a desire to blow up her life and start a new one, then no amount of personal growth or DBing or GALing or any of that is going to matter, because it's really the fact that you are you that's the perceived problem. Some people, like me, take great joy and pride in building a long, stable, happy home life. And some people hear the ticking clock of their mortality, and it tortures them to think that this (wife and mother) might end up defining them and being their sole accomplishments in life.