no experience with seperations, though I have felt like it a time or two! I do think sometimes it is helpful and necessary for people to take a "time-out". I wish you luck!

KeeKee,i've read some of your blogs and i can't help but think that i will be you some day if i don't move on. i am not yet at the point that i never want to see my dh again, but i have announced to him that i no longer want to live with ss15. the guilt parenting and waste of space of a child is for me too much. we have only lived together since may'08 and married in april '09 but when i was putting the ss dishes in the dishwasher (my mistake i know) during my honeymoon, that was it. i almost immediatly started to plan my escape from the madness. the house is up for sale and i told him that we need to go back to the way things were as i cannot deal or watch this anymore and simply am not happy. with all the fights as a result of ss and bm in this short period of time, i fear that the idea of seperate living arrangements will soon turn to divorce or seperation if nothing is done. i know you were looking for advice, and i am babbling on about myself, but in a way i am giving you an alternative it sounds like you're already thinking about. for me, i know enough of dh and how happy we were before this "stranger" came under my roof. i have never bonded with the child and trapped in the same house i feel i never will. tell dh that the move is for the best and that some seperation will give you peace in your own home, remember peace , sweet peace? that freedom and your own space will likely increase your happiness immediatly and will probably give dh a wake up call.

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