How a treehouse can cost you your marriage

[Clyde]

So there is much more to the story, my first post seemed to be getting long...

I continued to work the 100 hour weeks for another 6 months, during that time all seemed good. My w decided she wanted to go to school to be a Holistic Health Practitioner/Massage Therapist. I altered my schedule to accommodate her 2-3 days a week of school, and intern took my hours down as I was doing the school runs, and hanging out with our 3 year old while she went to school.

Now my w was studying non stop on top of running the household and going to school (I did what I could to help on top of the 2-3 days I ran the house), so there was little time to enjoy each others company, nurture our relationship. And while I tried my best to be understanding of the load she was under I still felt as though we should take time to go out, or even hang out once in a while. It seldom happened even though I was constantly suggesting it.
She did however find time to go out with her friends every now and then, I pointed out to her that the last three times she ate out was with her friend (who she calls her sister, no relation), meanwhile she and I had not been out in over 10 months!

Also around this time I borrowed her phone (mine was dead), while I had her phone a text came in that caught my eye because I saw my name in it. I read it out of curiosity, it was her friend agreeing with my w that I was an angry person, I listen to horrible music, and that my attitude was the cause of my neck injury. When I asked my wife about what she said in the text, she stood by her statement, no remorse, no sympathy for my injury or the fact that it happened literally breaking my back for my family. She has yet to take the comment back to this day.

This was the start of the final months… we went back to MC, I was more than open to addressing my shortcomings and my w seemed very involved genuinely wanting to fix our relationship.