I appreciate your candor in this. I feel so ashamed of myself and knowing little things I could have done to make things better for my W. I feel up and down all in the same day. I wish she would just give us another try, but that’s just selfish on me. We reconciled before but we never worked on the M, so ai can see why she’d give up hope. I feel she has rewritten history, saying we weren’t compatible, when we were so early in our marriage. I feel betrayed.

I have not told W yet about my offer to change custody because I feel it would appear that I am trying to bargain with her. I am trying to detach and so the last thing I want to do is try to convince her.

I don’t know what will happen when I propose changing custody. What i do know is could have the same days, but just break it into two long weekends. I also don’t know how my oldest kids would react or want to spend time with a step-mom who divorced their day.