I read through all this but probably won't address it all. But yes...I took the vows seriously and really meant "til death do us part". And yes, part of it is that I think I could do better, but am still worried that my efforts wouldn't be enough. Those comments I think are right on.
Bruce, her behaviors that I was talking about she absolutely DID NOT do at any point up until the last 6-9 months. These aren't things I ignored or overlooked. They are actually new to her. This was a woman who was completely self-sufficient when I met her and extremely good with her money. Now she seems free with it (since she took quite a bit of our joint money with her when she went). It truly is not like her. I e-mailed this woman for the last 5 years. I know how she writes and the way she does it now is not the same. I feel she might be rebelling against getting older. Don't know. But it is different.
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
