Easy Does It

Perhaps the best thing I can do is sit back for a while.  Things are not going to chage, or at least not for the better, by my clinging to our marriage as tightly as I have been doing.  In hindsight, I should have been less impatient with Sheila, and given us both more room to reflect and meditate.  Several times over the past few years she has asked me not to push her, because I may not like the decision she was leaning towards at the time.  While considering her point, I was still too confident that splitting up was unconscionable, and so I assumed that any action would necessarily push us towards the obvious conclusion (to me), that we needed to work out our differences.  It's not too late to take things easy for awhile.  There's still a lot of water needs to pass under the bridge before one of us makes the move to actually split up (and there's really no reason why that should be me).  Taking a slow-go approach is almost certainly in order.