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#1781456 12/10/06 04:12 PM
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Does anybody know how to plan A when husband does not want to talk to you?
How do you fix when you have love busted?
Has anybody seen were husband has left for other woman and husband and wife get back together?

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1. Does anybody know how to plan A when husband does not want to talk to you?
2. How do you fix when you have love busted?
3. Has anybody seen were husband has left for other woman and husband and wife get back together?

1. Half of plan A is about yourself. You need to look deep down within yourself, find the problems you had that contributed to your marriage, and work on improving yourself. If you are an angry, critical person, you need to work on that. If you let your spouse walk all over you, you need to work on respecting yourself. If you were co-dependent, you need to learn how to live without your spouse. Go out with friends and family, have fun, and work on you. If you stop trying to talk to your WH as much, he will start initiating contact with you more often, and then try and meet his needs. Figure out which needs he allows you to meet, and avoid love busters.

2. You can't fix past love busters, but you can keep from love busting in the future. Remember the concept of the love bank? Right now it is probably at a negative balance. Stop LBing and making withdrawals, and meet enough ENs to push the love bank back into the black. It will take quite a bit of time considering he is keeping you from making most deposits, but eventually you can get his love for you back. It just takes time and ridding your WH of the OW.

3. There are at least 5 regular posters that I know of (BSs and WSs) whose marriage survived that exact situation. Just look at some of their signatures. I think lousygolfer is a FWH that left and came back.


Jim

BS - 32 (me)
FWW - 33
Married 8/31/03
No kids (but 3 cats)
D-Days - 8/25/06 (EA), 11/3/06 (PA)
NC agreed to - 11/8/06
NC broken - 11/28/06, 12/16/06, 1/18/07, 1/26/07, 1/27/07
Status - In Recovery
Jim's Story
Anika #1781458 12/11/06 04:24 AM
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jmw gave you some good info to consider.

Plan A s/b about you. The WS will hate everything you do so don't exasparate yourself over it. Know he will hate it and move on.

You love and want your H back not the WS.

L.


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