Blue, I’ve thought some more about what you wrote and I may have a somewhat comparable relationship repair situation to relate.
I am living solo in the city, my wife of twenty years and two sons (15, 13) out in the suburbs; I spend the afternoon and evening with my boys twice a week. Although living separated for over three years, we’re still married without any legal separation.
I see my wife perhaps six times a year – a birthday dinner for the boys, a holiday, school play – and started wearing Spaceland and Instant Shine last December when I stayed overnight at Christmas. There was an instantaneous – and strongly suppressed – but positive response from my wife.
In spring I added both A-1 and A314 and a traces of -none and the response – on another four or five meetings – has become progressively more positive, and less suppressed. (It’s ~not~ a matter of cynicism for me to note that my wife has started buying dinner out – her treat – since I started wearing A314 around her.)
A month ago, we had the longest conversation since we began living apart … ten months or so after I started wearing pheros around her.
Was it just finally time for the healing to begin, or were the pheros integral to the shift? I know my answer, but whichever way you see the evidence, my advice is
Be patient; be exceedingly patient; and then
when you feel so frustrated that you can’t wait
find a way to be even more patient.
And have a care not to give even the least cause to lose trust again.
Try social pheros first, is my suggestion. Spaceland, Instant Openness, Come Talk to Me, Instant Honesty, Instant Shine. Perhaps A314, if respect was also lost with the trust.
I suspect that the only reason traces of -none helped in my case is that I am a male in my mid-fifties.