Originally Posted by Maturin
Originally Posted by Ready2Change
She has to miss you and the resentment has to go away.

W's resentment runs deep, going back to events that occurred when we were first married 10+ years ago. She has begun to make comments about wanting me to "hang out" with her again, because I no longer spend time with her/our old group of friends. So in a sense, the "miss you" is just now starting.

Originally Posted by Ready2Change
Read and live the four agreements. Do not take anything she does personally.

This is a funny one: over the years W's mom has bought her various books as she's seen her struggle, hoping things would click and she'd turn her behavior around. These books were never opened or read. This is one of those books and I was just able to find it in our study, looks like I have some Saturday reading to do.
Don’t mistake the point R2C is trying to make with being put in the friend zone.