You are kicking a$$. Wow! I am completely impressed by how you have your life together. You have enough "get a life" for several of us to use. Maybe you should share.
I like the sentiment about how the one for you is Andy and that you are content to be alone if you can't have him. The attitude is probably essential if you want to DB most effectively. But now answer me honestly....if you got him back exactly as he is now would he really be good enough for you? Would you be able to keep your marriage viable if despite your best efforts he just doggedly believed he was always right? That you aren't a good enough parent or what you want doesn't matter? I know this is looking too far forward, but you are such a special woman with amazing talents and you deserve the best. This is probably idle speculation at this point, but don't we ask ourselves from time to time...."the spouse I want really hasn't changed much from when we were married. Am I sure that I can prevent the problems from happening again?" Or is that just me asking that of myself. I share your sentiment Jo. I feel that this is the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with....but I still ask myself those questions.
Anyway, enough of idle speculation, doom and gloom, and all that. Congratulations on your book Jo. We are all proud of you. I'm sure your H is too.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt