Is this another stage, I wonder? After seven months apart, and I must say I have not missed him or all the arguments, he is not communicating at all. This has been eleven days now. We argued on the phone, the first spoken conversation we have had for some time. I am supposed to sign some mortgage refinancing documents. He should be supporting me, financially, and has refused. I am not trying to be awkward, I just find it very hard to trust him. I need legal advice; that costs money, because I want my solicitor to be aware of what's going on, and I am paying her by the hour after my

I really thought I was over the worst, but tonight I realise I'm not.  My virtually-ex called me up on skype.   I had to go out,  so we agreed to speak later.  He has never accepted my reasons for feeling as I do, and still doesn't get that I don't want to go back to him.   When we did skyped-chat, it was only an hour or two after I had been speaking to the man I hoped would be my new future, once I was free of my controlling spouse.  He's called it off.  Now what do I do? 

 Within the marriage, I had security; I had a difficult husband and two strong, often challenging, children (they are

Well, here we are again, late on a Saturday night and ought to be going up to bed... there's a kind of lethargy in me that's stopping me moving forward or back, and I'm being really helpless about my petition now. 

If I put his carryings-on in front of a judge, they are pretty bad. Take out the worst ones, the ones that did all the damage, and they constantly suggest that it was my fault all along.  Stupid woman, fancy thinking I might be happier with someone new... My husband's appalling behaviour was triggered by my wish to separate; my wish to separate was triggered by the kind of