Ken & Kathleen,
<br>Thank you for your words of support. I know 1 month is not alot of time but I'm extremely limited in what I can afford to do, and no, I don't have any friends or family in the area that I can stay with. We are new in the area.
<br>I have a few reasons why I would rather leave for this "trial seperation". If my wife were to move to a new place, it would be a new and exciting experience filled with new sights and a feeling of a fresh start. I feel my absense would be lost in this "newness". Besides, my wife can't afford to live on her own and I don't want to uproot my daughter from her home. She could stay with me but daycare would be very difficult on her. I want my wife to be in familiar surroundings where she can truely notice that I am gone and that things are not quite the same, be it for better or worse.
<br>I don't know, maybe I'm way off thinking that any of these reasons will make a difference. This is my first time through this, hopefuly the last. I'm trying to make, what little time I can afford to stay away, have an impact. Either one way or the other.
<br>After this trial, we can make more permenant plans and agreements, if we go down that road. I pray we don't.
<p>Thanks again,
<br>Greg

Greg,
<p>From the male point of view women appear to be so heartless with this thing. For men a screw up is easily fixed. Even if we get in a fight one guy can show up on the other's doorstep tomorrow with a swollen jaw and pick up were they left off. It's so simple to us.
<br>For women it seems to be on a totally different level. I know that it is so maddening how my wife can be so normal acting one day then starve me for the next four days. To me it seems like a cold, calculating hardness. To her it's...well, I don't really know what it is to her. My wife told me that I am going to need to learn how to go without the affection I used to like because it was excessive. I said that I could learn to do with less.
<br>But so far it seems like her definition of less is something like rationing water in the desert when you only have one canteen.
<br>But we are going off for the week end tomorrow. I hope this helps a little.
<br>Your wife sounds like she's being highly inconsiderate of you. Does she like to do anything else besides go to the gym?