Somebody tell me what this means to them:

My W (who told me yesterday that she is in love with the OM, and who cannot think about any way to come back to living with me as my wife) told me today that she is planning on having my name tattooed on her.

She's been hard at work on an art project (one in which she's invested her heart and soul), and I've been trying to help along the way with domestic sorts of things.

So today I get an e-mail saying: "I love you !!!!!!!!" and the tattoo comment.

Actually, that's not the first time she's said it.

How can she be so attached to me (and what is the nature of that) without even glimpsing a possibility that I might not be the ogre who wants to crush her life?

Come on, people! Tell me something other than "MLC". I'm trying to get to what "thing" is hovering in front of her brain that paints me in the colors of the "impossible husband."

And I've already been compared to her evil, controlling father, so that's one possible clue...