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Just don't know the answer

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Lately, I’ve been thinking that I’m just in limbo. While my H has been communicating well, he hasn’t made any real efforts towards repairing our marriage. We went to MC and we all felt about a month ago that we were well on our way to repairing the marriage. I should be happy about that, but I’m not. H still works with OW. He makes it sound like it’s miserable for him, but is he just saying that so that I feel better about it? It used to be that they were on separate floors, now they share the same office space. He rarely mentions her name. In fact, she hasn’t come up in the past week at all. So why am I feeling this way? I guess a part of me feels that it’s still too soon to have this whole “forgotten” about & move on like we should. I look at pictures before and after the A and think how stupid was I thinking we were all happy and for the after pictures, I see the sadness in me – the forced smiles. My H concedes that he has a lot of work to do on his part, but he still hasn’t done anything. I need help in letting go of all these things, one way or another. Any suggestions?
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I am sending you support and love and encouragement and strength. Breathe. Try to focus on the good things in you and the good things in each day. Talk to your husband about what you are feeling and what you want and what you need. Maybe revisiting your therapist is a good idea. You sound like you are at a crossroads and might need some expert guidance right now. Peace, sister.
If you feel like his silence is leaving you with too many questions then you should request he update you every night. I don't think this is unreasonable.
"My H concedes that he has a lot of work to do on his part, but he still hasn’t done anything."
I think that most women have this idea that if their husbands cared enough about them that they should know what they want. However, I rarely seem to know what my wife truly wants; we don't read between the lines very well. I don't know what is on your husbands mind or heart, but if you believe that he wants to stay in the marriage and is willing to work on it then you should be very specific about the kinds of things you want to see him doing and the way you want him to act. When you say he hasn't done anything, my guess is that he feels like he is trying and can't understand why you can't see it. The truth is that he may just not be trying the same way that you want him to. I don't know if any of this makes any sense or not, but it is possible for a man to be sincere about doing something even when you can't understand why he is doing it that way. He may just not know how to show you he is serious in a way you can understand.
He won't lose his title or reduce his wages by making a transfer. I know what it's like to have to be the new person coming into a job. I've done at least 1-2 dozen times myself. There's a part of me that says "Get over it" as well as "you made your choices with regard to me, now make one that you know will strengthen our marriage. Let go of that last obstacle that comes between us on occasion forever".
It would take a lot of pressure off me if he made a decision that he felt was for the good of us. But I feel like he's forcing me to corner him and demand it from him.
In his mind, it isn't necessary because he's over the OW and it's not an issue for him anymore - I guess it's hard for him to see why it is still an issue for you.
After D-day, i waited for H to stop looking at porn on his own, get off the dating sites, and remove ex-girlfriends from his Facebook. I was using it as a measure of how much progress he was making. Needless to say, I finally blew up at him 5 months later because he hadn't done ANY of it on his own.
As soon as we had that discussion, he deleted his accounts on the dating sites, stopped looking at porn (I checked the security software) and anyone he had physical contact with during his adult life was removed from his Facebook account. I guess I should have said all that upfront, but everything seemed so fragile and volatile in the beginning, and i thought he would figure out on his own that it was all inappropriate.
Several weeks after that blow-up, he told me that he felt a whole lot better once he stopped doing all that, and thanked me for leading him in the right direction.
I guess your H is probably the same -- he needs you to point him in the right direction.
Anyway I guess a long way of saying I agree with Lisa and maybe your H just really needs to hear you say for him to transfer and not leave it up to him.