HF, Good advice from your girlfriend. It must be comforting coming from someone on the other side of this nightmare. My brother is a former LBS who was reconciled with WAW after a year separation. He says the same thing. He heard many of the things that we hear from our was'. He reminds me that you can't believe them and that nothing you say or do to get through to them will work. All you can do is work on yourself, detach, gal. The WAS will come around if and when the smoke clears from their head. Easy in theory, yet the practice is difficult. You are doing a great job. This setback doesn't put you back to starting base, and it doesn't mean the game's over.