Steve, I'm now sorry that I used your sitch as the example. The point was that we all make covert contracts. If the condition was with yourself there is no need to disclose any agreement with a second party because it doesn't involve their performance.

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"I will give it until next spring, and if it is still bad I will find another job."


This is not a covert contract because there is no second party. IMO, it is a merely a personal deadline. It is only when there are 2 parties that it becomes an agreement, covert or otherwise.

M 53 W 54, M since 98
D15, D19
8/2013 discovered EA, W maintained contact with OM
until 10/14
7/2/17 W said she wanted S, 7/25/17 moved out of MBR
12/17 W says moving out 5/18, W still in home.