I've been legally separated for 8 months now. I left my husband after 16 years because I was tired of living with a chauvinistic domineering man. He doesn't see anything wrong with going to the local bar and hanging out with "the boys" every night; I can go too if I want! It’s a long story and we were both wrong and did things we shouldn’t have but that are not the issue now. He wants to get back together because he still "loves" me. I signed off on all of his goverment benefits; retirement, death benefits and medical coverage after a year. I will still receive half of the proceeds from the house...if and when it sells. It is suppose to be on the market now but he doesn't want to sell it.

I have recently been laid off from work; I am renting and have my 18 year old grandson living with me. I am beginning to have financial problems and I am taking a look at different options. One of which is to go back to my husband and be financially stable but resume being a "wife" which includes; earning an income to "pay my fair share of the bills" which means half ; being a "merry maid" house cleaner, an interior decorator, a party planner and hostess, a cook, dishwasher, laundry woman, nurse, taxi driver and sexual partner. This would probably be the easiest and quickest way and maybe it would be better than living alone the rest of my life or trying to find someone else. I've basically become a "hermit" now anyway.