Haven't heard from you in awhile. Just curious what has happened and if the counseling session was helpful.
I re-read what you wrote about XH and current H and put myself in your shoes. If I found someone else at this junction, still having feelings for my XW, and things progressed (maybe not to married, but serious), but I continued to be friends with XW and she finally told me she loved me what would I do? That's a hard question. I hope you returned to tell us how you answered it. I, for one, despite my admonishments, won't criticize either way because honestly I can't completely understand it and because I'm afraid I would go back to X. But I don't have a reference point because I'm not currently involved with someone else and still hung up on my X.
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