MrsNOP, You want to know which one of your sentences resonated the most with me?
The one about the shadows.
Too often, I feel that we are doing great with each other but we are just not there. The shadow is there...the shadow of him feeling inadequate, of me making him feel this way. Of me disconnecting because we are not ML, of him trying to force the connection in other ways, to make up for it.
I want that shadow to leave this home and never return.