I originally posted this as a reply to someone's comment to my blog the other day.

I think it is encouraging but will wait to see if it happens.

I wrote on Sunday;

We actually sat down and had a long chat in the late evening. This helped remove some major blocks in the way we thought.

My wife would say 'We have agreed to divorce, haven't we' yet in other conversations she would say 'You said divorce, I never did.' I couldn't square the circle with these statements. At last it came out. My wife has not decided on divorce and is unsure about it. BUT would welcome a separation for a fixed time

Well the week-end began on Friday far better than usual. No moans about house or about me so that was really encouraging.

Saturday, her niggles kicked in. Tense with the kids and tense with me but as per normal my fault. Luckily she was out in the afternoon with kids and they came back much happier. Kids looked great, blush to their cheeks from the cold weather and great smiles. Tea was running late and in danger of making the girls miss Strictly Come Dancing. Obviously all my fault, despite them watching the start on time.

Sunday, I awoke early just as daylight was trying to break

Well we had a planned conversation last night which started on time, was civil, kept to the subject and left us both on an emotional even keel.

So that's good, isn't it? So why later in the evning did I feel that it hadn't been quite even.

Perhaps it is paranoia, I don't know.

The plan I had laid on the table a few weeks ago was for me to put self-employed business on back burner, running it as an evening or week-end role and to look for regular waged work.

Last night wife said she can see that there is a demand for my business and I should go for it. Full-time try and hit the Xmas demand.