I didn"t dump Richard. I believe in formal argument, chances, and choices. If things didn"t change between Richard and I, he would have to go. The lifestyle my children and I had been living was not healthy. It needed to change and either Richard and I needed to change the relationship or we needed to end the relationship.
Either way, the relationship we currently had was over. Richard made it clear that he would sooner get a divorce than seek marriage counseling, which meant marriage counseling was out of the question. I didn"t have a problem with this. I had mastered formal argument and my years with Scott had trained me to shut down my emotions on a dime.
So that is what I did. I shelved my emotions, shut down, entered into a state of reasoning and formal argument, and proceeded with
