I really enjoyed reading your quoted posts. Where are you finding those, hon? I'd like to read more. I think it will help me in my detachment for my current pothole.
And I want you to know I understand more or less exactly where you are coming from. Don't think many of these questions did not run through my own head when SO and I first reunited. And of course to some degree they are there again. However, he's shown a lot of changed behavior, so he is indeed backing up his words with actions. Were he not, I would be in the same shoes as you find yourself.
I regardless of where we are at in any R/M, we still need to be happy with our "singleness". It is key, and probably one of the biggest lessons I've learned from DRing. We have to be happy with who we are, and if we're not, no one else will make us happy.
You certainly are listening to her words in a much different manner than you would have oh, say, last spring? Even early summer?
I'm still bummed I didn't get to meet you this fall. I hope you know what a great guy and father you are, okay? And don't be a stranger around here, just because of where you are. I've learned a lot from you.
