A lot of very wise people on here. I can tell you all the overall mistake I've made here and not that this is going to come as any surprise. I didn't have patience. I wanted immediate results. This (or anything in life) doesn't work that way. Don't be an idiot like me and loose your wife, family and everything else because you are impatient. One of the crazy things that I said to my wife one time during all of this is "we are smart people that make a lot of money and have a lot of things, we can figure this out". Ha! What a joke. It doesn't matter how smart you are, how good of a job you have, how handsome/pretty you are, etc... NONE of that matters at the end of the day. I have now somewhat shifted my focus to Grief Recovery and have discovered the 5 Stages and can honestly say that I have bounced around in each of these stages quite a bit (more so #1-4). Hope this helps someone out there.

1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance


Me: 38
Her: 33
Bomb: 1/6/2017
Separated: 1/10/17
Together: 16 Years
Son 12 Years Old
She and Son still at the house
Divorce Filed/Retracted Multiple Times
Divorce: scheduled to be final 6/20/17