Quoting lostlove: I forgot how quiet it is here at night, I guess h really has been around alot lately I forgot what the past six months of sitting at the puter with no noise in the house was like
A person gets used to being alone, but break the pattern even for just a short time, and you have to get used to it all over again (read that from a Richard Bach book--"Illusions," I think).
When separated but not divorced, you are effectively living the life of a "married person" minus the spouse. The house may be just the right size for the entire family, but without the spouse it's too damned big. And as long as he neither comes back outright or "files," that space remains.
The question then becomes, is there anything you can do to somehow "fill in" that space a bit? And how long are you willing to coexist with the "space" that remains?
SI 
