Interesting clarification. THank you. I haven't been in your shoes. I wasn't aware from your post that your wife is still at the "trying to love you" stage. I thought what you meant by she's serious about trying is that she feels love again. That has got to be doubly hard...acting loving towards someone when you don't feel especially loving and you know they don't feel in love with you. Is that right?

Hard. I think it's great you can offer your kids this. And I think over time that trust will come and the rest will follow. And you may be right....act in a loving way and the feelings will follow. I hope someday you are no longer numb. Do you forgive her?


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