Well if there was any doubt in my mind whether she wanted to see me again I probably would've pushed more for a date and time. However I know she will get in touch with that already so I wanted to play it cool. I would've felt needy doing that...like when a parent tells a kid I'll take you to the toy store and the kid says "Yayyyy when Daddy when are we going?!!!" So me essentially coming back with "Yayyyy WAW when when when?!" That's to me is showing way too much enthusiasm. So I can't say I regret not setting the date. Again, the idea here is for her to think I am fine not seeing her.. it's her turn to do the work here in my opinion, and that definitely includes setting this thing up. As far as being casual friends, I am confident she would fall for me again, but the only way for that to happen is to use the guise if friendship to spend time with her... jumping right in and making my more-than-friendship motives obvious would also be a very needy, bad move in my opinion. In fact if I remember correctly, I remember reading something about establishing what's called a "False Friendship" with an ex you want to get back with in one of the relationship books I had read back when the D first happened. Finally, when she does contact me to set this up... because SHE did it herself...it is further confirmation that it is a priority of HERS and not something I enticed. So this was my rationale with the things you gentlemen refer to.
ME: 43 W:44 M 13 years on 5-5-01 T 18 years BD 4/27/14 D papers served 5/5/14 (how appropriate a date) WAW moved out 5/12/14 Papers filed 6/27/14 Divorce granted 07/17/14 Our marriage ends 11/17/14