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Hello Friends, Romans and Countrymen:

I just read for the first time, the six stages of a MLC. I do think she is in a MLC but add the childhood psyche issues into the mix and its a hornet's nest.

I think she's coming out of replay stage and entering the depression stage. I see now how much time each of these stages can take. The vets were right, this can take a long time.

This may sound odd but I'm actually enjoying the part about focusing on myself. It's like I have been granted this time out and the ability to evaluate my whole life and see where I developed harmful habits, know why and where they came from, and realize that I know how to move beyond them into a better realm. I'm not sure if this chance would have ever came if she didn't have this happen to her, or maybe it would have come about in some other fashion.

I do really miss having a partner. Maybe this was the only way to get to a place of having a much better partnership. Who knows? Maybe I would have been different had I been with someone else? Hard to say.

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hey there!

Glad to see you're alive and well! I've read somewhere that childhood issues can play a big role in MLC's.

I applaud you for taking the time to focus on yourself. I read a wise person's comment on someone's thread that the WAS is giving the LBS a gift, the gift of time. You have "received" this gift well. I wish I could say the same for me. But because you are doing so well focusing on yourself, it gives me inspiration and motivation to do the same!


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Originally Posted By: rickb89
I just read for the first time, the six stages of a MLC. I do think she is in a MLC but add the childhood psyche issues into the mix and its a hornet's nest.


Hey Rick, just curious where you saw these 6 stages? Thanks.


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Originally Posted By: rickb89
I just read for the first time, the six stages of a MLC. I do think she is in a MLC but add the childhood psyche issues into the mix and its a hornet's nest.


Hey Rick, just curious where you saw these 6 stages? Thanks.


Go to Active Topics/MLC Resources/thread - 6 stages of MLC by Heart Blessings. It really fits what I'm seeing but will have to read this a few times and chew on it a while. Best of luck to you CES!

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hey there!

Glad to see you're alive and well! I've read somewhere that childhood issues can play a big role in MLC's.

Makes sense and considering her trauma at at early age I'm not suprised. It's like she lived in a self protective shell for ever and it finally erupted. Now she has to figure out all the answers at once, answers that you and I figured out for ourselves as we lived our lives. It's sad for me to think I have been married to someone who never really knew herself, and that means I never really knew her either.

I applaud you for taking the time to focus on yourself. I read a wise person's comment on someone's thread that the WAS is giving the LBS a gift, the gift of time.

[color:#CC0000]I think Mach posted that comment[/color].

You have "received" this gift well. I wish I could say the same for me. But because you are doing so well focusing on yourself, it gives me inspiration and motivation to do the same!


I think we all prop each other up where needed. Some days I help someone, somedays they help me.

I really think you have a good chance that your H will return to earth. Just keep calm as best you can, and vent her or anywhere but to him! I'm realizing that no matter how much time this takes, whatever we think we can handle, it will take longer than that for our spouses to figure themselves out and realize the love of their life is right their with them already.

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Rick I think Purg was looking for you over on her thread. Here is the LINK . Look for post # 2225183.

Hope you are doing well today.


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Rick, I don't think it's odd at all to be "enjoying" this time to yourself. I think in M, it's so easy to have lives that are so intertwined that it's hard to realize where one person ends and the other begins. And although this situation is a super downer.. There is a beauty in rediscovering ourselves as individuals.

As for your question about being different of you were with someone else.. Yes you would be. Different people.. Different dynamics. Maybe you would have been kinder.. Maybe not. No sense in wondering the what ifs. Because maybe you wouldn't be the father of 3 wonderful boys.. And maybe you wouldn't have the "adopted" daughter.. And maybe you wouldn't have ended up here on the boards to be the speedo wearing eggplant!!

You have been an incredibly supportive friend to many here so.. I wouldn't have my life any other way. I don't think you would either wink


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Rick and Labug may have learning disabilities or ADHD? Dunno .


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Thanks 2Pac hope you're well too!

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