Brief review: Me: 38 W: 34 5yr Son Separated since 10/28/04. Signed D Papers 3/24/05 D finalized 5/2/05.
Prior to June, the sitch had much improvement, with increased friendliness and trust. Then during June, a sizable dose of MLC kicked in, with W growing cold, distant, angry again. I responded in past week with several boundary setting behaviors, leading to W asking me to "back off a little."
Was friendly in latter convo about my father and S5.
I'm tweaking my approach to include greater gentleness and improved listening, less reactivity to her MLC-type behaviors, and yet firm boundaries. Ramping up my GAL work again as well.
