Hi all. It's been a while since I checked in here and even longer since I posted on my thread.

This will be a short post too. I would love to report back all the big improvements in my situation but there aren't many. ..... yet!!! That being said I have seen many small signs that I wrote as mini signs of improvement. I appreciate noticing these but overall this isn't the way I want to live. Nothing new there. I will create a new thread someday and outline things better.

Other aspects of my life have seen bigger changes with more coming online shortly. That's good.

My situation continues to hold me in a cage. I have grown. I am much stronger but having a live-in MLCer and maintaining a life "together" is a restricting. I am living a fuller life than before so this isn't stopping me but sometimes I feel like I am straining to snap the chains that bind me. In many ways I feel like a WAS eager for that better life. Yet I am still here. I have distanced a lot more mostly because I don't enjoy our poor quality time together. Without interpreting my W is still here too.

Anyway just wanted to drop by and say hi. Overall I am doing OK. I read up on some of the "old" posters and noticed a lot of new ones. Best wishes to ye all


R 25 years
M 14 years
S11 & S13
Working on it alone since Oct 2014
M in trouble a lot earlier (~2 years)
Feb 2016. 1st R chat in a yr.
Next R chat Aug'17
Still together