Thanks, Pattnee. It took me a holiday season or two to get used to the split with D11. I'm sure I'll eventually get there with this new reality, too, but this year will likely be hard. Right now waiting on W to agree on the proposal that xW and I are in agreement with.
And yes, the world would be a lot better if everyone made the healthiest choices. 2 years ago, W wanted to match her grand parent's anniversary number of 62. Moved out as soon as anything hard came up. Although I do assume she's going through a crisis with her MS. I hate to only be speculating. A friend has been encouraging me to ask her why she is doing this (so far I've only heard from her that it's about my mom and the stress of home life, which I know are both BS reasons for leaving). I am tempted but I know it's straight up R talk. If I get anything from her, it would likely be more lies. I've seen her in person maybe 5 times since Aug 20, and 99% of texts are business related (S1 or belongings). So not really any chances for it to come up naturally in convo.
Me 38, WAW 30 D11 (former marriage) S2 T 8 years M 3 years BD 8/20/23 S 8/20/23