Thanks for the support guys! Honestly, patience is a 180...I'm not the most patient guy. However, I do COMPLETELY understand that it took years to get here and things are going to be "normal" or "better" overnight. And, I don't want them to...this is going to have to be a new relationship so to speak.
To be quite honest, there was point in therapy where I just wanted to say, "EFF IT, I'M OUT!" This is a true challenge to my character and patience.
She continues to say that she needs time to process things, to take things as they come. I'll take that as a positive...if she wanted out, I'm sure she would take it. For me, it's either in or out...there's no time to process. Either you want to be together or you don't. It feels like she's deciding whether she wants to be with me or not, but she told the MC that that wasn't the case. She wanted to be with me and save the M. Who knows...I'll just continue working on me, 180s, GAL, and self-differentiation.
Me: 44 Her: 42 T: 22, M: 20 D:18, S:16, S:11 Sep: 6 months in 2002 Sep again: March 15, 2015 (5 months) WAW talk again: January 21, 2019