Here I am reading your post with tears in my eyes.. OMG..I am sitting here imagining the guy who thought he was so great and ran around with the "spook" finally get..I mean really get it.
You are so right..It is very hard to see when they do wake up. I think my XH has given me glimpses. Saying he was stupid..took me for granted..the R with the OW is way worse than ours..the whole deal. When I didn't bite the bait or react the way he thought I would, he got mad.
Back in the day, if he let his guard down and his vulnerablity show, I would have taken him back. Nope..Too much has been done.
The description you wrote about your X (chipdick) looking like a child who needed a hug, wow, that was really profound. I often saw my XH looking away when he would get the kids..While he sat in the car, I would peek out the window and see him just look off in the distance..glazed eyes. It almost gave me a pit in my stomach.
Boy, Mea, you have come a long way. Just remembering when the two of us started to post each other last year..maybe year and a half we both wanted our hubby's back.
You are so right. I do hope that all of our friends hubby who are in MLC get it before it's too late. It is so so sad to see how they have done so much damage to the family and cannot return.
I was always a person who could forgive and forget. I do forgive him. But I don't think I could ever forget most of the stuff he did to me or the kids. I would always wonder if he had that nasty side in him if I were to become friends with him again.
As for the house, I do hope you can move in. That makes me so happy to think that you could get it after all!