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TYLOSAND Sofa Bed from IKEA
Sofa Sleeper of the Week
In my weekly pursuit of finding a great sleeper sofa, it is impossible to ignore the varied options from IKEA. With a price point under $1,000 the TYLOSAND sofa bed is one of IKEA's more popular options and is part of a larger TYLOSAND family of seating. I played around with a floor model at the Red Hook IKEA for this report.
Perhaps it's the fate of any IKEA floor model, but my first impression of the TYLOSAND was depressing. Designed around individual, modular cushions supported in a metal frame — a weak interpretation of Le Corbusier's LC seating — the TYLOSAND has a disheveled appearance. This is one sofa that takes some extra effort to look nice.
After I fluffed some cushions and made the sofa bed more presentable, I started taking photos and attempted to figure out the transition process from sofa to bed — this proved much more difficult than it appears! There are lots of moving parts and it took a lot of effort to transform the sofa in a way that resulted in a balanced and un-rickety bed.
The transformation would have been much easier with two people — it takes effort to yank and pull on the parts without moving the entire piece of furniture. This does not behave like a sofa bed designed for regular transitions. Also the site mentions that TYLOSAND has built-in storage for extra pillows and comforters, but I didn't even notice this during the transition process.
The TYLOSAND series includes ottomans that can be added to a sofa bed for the look of a sectional. and TYLOSAND is currently available with 6 slipcover options. The basic model in a "sand" 100% polyester slipcover is $799. The 5 other slipcovers are a combination of cotton, rayon, polyester (and some include linen), these are all priced at $899.
PRICE $799 (as shown in sand ) other colors/slipcovers $899
DESIGNERS C. Ojerstam & M. Eleback
DIMENSIONS 30"H x 94.5"W x 36/78.75"D Mattress height 12.25''
Aaron will be profiling a different sleeper every week. Is there one you're curious about? Let us know in the comments.
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I am thinking about buying an Ikea Beddinge sleeper. Anyone have any experience with these?
Ikea is great for a lot of things, but I wouldn't even consider to get any furniture besides some bookcases or similar. In sofas and sofa beds, usually low price equals bad quality.
Plus this sofa is plain ugly.
While shopping for a sofabed for my den a couple years back, I briefly considered IKEA sofabeds - but I couldn't get over the fact that it appears that their innards are falling out and clearly visible beneath the raised sofa base...
...then of course there's the crease at the front of the cushion where it unfolds - just a bad design.
Bad news, I was thinking about building a sectional out of Tylosand pieces. Anyone know of a similarly priced modular sofa that doesn't look as bedraggled? If the people shooting the catalog can't get the slipcovers to look straight along the base, god knows I can't.
Is a "price point" different than a price? Why is the "price point" decribed as less than one thousand dollars rather than less than nine hundred dollars?
I bought a tylosand sofa a few years back (not the sofa bed but still) and I ended up completely hating it. I actually gave it away to a friend and bought the Petrie apartment sofa from Crate and Barrel. The tylosand's cushions do not stay put. You will be sitting on them and you realize you are sliding closer and closer to the edge of the frame and then all of a sudden you are on the floor. The couch is so deep that I had no chance of my feet reaching the floor. One of the support beams underneath broke in half. We are not heavy or rambunctious people. We weren't bounding off the furniture or trying to practice our trampoline skills or anything. It just broke. The cushions became uncomfortable very quickly. Apparently my cat hated it too because he absolutely shredded the arms, much to my dismay.
I thought it was cute and the orange color was fun, but beauty is only skin deep apparently.
"Is a "price point" different than a price? Why is the "price point" decribed as less than one thousand dollars rather than less than nine hundred dollars?"
The retail price of a product, usually when viewed as one of a series of possible competitive prices - ie: "expected to release the software below the $50 price point."
While I adore my kipplin sofas (I know many on this site hate them... but they've held-up well for us over the years, and are super-comfy to sleep on while the baby is in the swing at 5am!), I would avoid ikea sofa beds. They look super cheap... like the other poster said, like the guts are coming out. I've also read reviews that they're not comfy.
Above all else, the company with the consistently best sofabed reviews I discovered is crate and barrel.... inexpensive, heck no.... then again, they're also much less than designer sofas, that also don't look comfy when the 'bed' is open.
Price points are prices at which demand for a given product stays relatively high.
It's essentially the highest sellers can go before people stop paying for it.
It's an actual economics term, but people like to bandy it about as if it meant price...
I have never liked the look of this sofa... The bits on the side look cheap and flimsy to me.
We have a tylosand sofa for about 2 years now. While what lizziepeony said is somewhat true that the cushions don't exactly stay put, we have not had it move more than an inch or two out in a period of a week or two, and nothing so drastic as completely falling off the sofa. Granted it's not the best constructed sofa, to me it looks pretty alright and for under $1k what do you really expect?
i am looking for stylish comfy sofa bed-- so thanks for this post! is this the first in the series?
I have a Tylosand right chaise and a left chaise, pushed up against each other....
I'm not amused with it, really. Sure, it makes a handy guest bed, esp. with the two footstools I got with them, but the extreme perpendicular angles of the cushions make it a really uncomfortable thing for reclining, and even just sitting in. The cushions do have this overstuffed look to them, too.
I am glad I didn't pay full price.
Syllogi, I have the Ikea Beddinge with the Murbo mattress. It's cheap as hell (especially with the Ransta slipcovers) and so far it's held up just fine for my purposes.
The Murbo mattress is really comfy, for sitting and sleeping. It's pretty deep when in "sofa mode" so I bought a couple of big cushions for it (it only comes with two tiny ones).
I like the click-clack mechanism it uses. You can change the angle of the back in about five seconds. The slip cover is really easy to take off and put on as well.
It's not the most stylish, I admit, so you probably won't get getting props from anyone on AT, but it's definitely functional.
I have an Angby (now discontinued but seems to be related to the Ektorp) sofa bed and think it's fantastic. Makes a great loveseat and for a sofa bed, is pretty comfortable to sleep on (which we've had to do on many occasions). We've had it for almost 10 years now and it's in perfect condition.
Lizziepeony et. al:
Ikea has good warranties for its products so make sure you keep the receipt in the future, if anything breaks or doesn't work as intended, you can have it fixed or exchanged or even get a full refund even after several years of use.
We bought a Tylosand sofa bed about two months ago, and have had several visitors compliment us on the comfort of the mattress! (My 6'4" 250 pound father AND my 5'9" 140 pound friend both really liked it) It's pretty firm, but that's much better than 'so squishy you can feel the springs' with other sofa beds.
I have no problem pulling out the slats and flipping over the cushions to make the bed myself.
There is a storage space - if you look at the fifth picture in this post - flip up the wood slats, and there is space to store at least the 4 small pillows, if not more.
We were really happy with how easy this was to put together. It looks great (we got the 'dark brown', which is more like a dark grey) in our second bedroom/office/guest bedroom and didn't break the bank.
I have had a beddinge for about 8 years, and after quite a while, it just turns into sleeping on a slab - if you get one, plan on replacing the mattress eventually, especially if you use it as a primary bed.
I think the attractiveness and comfort of the TYLOSAND is a matter of personal taste. I suffered for years with back pain on inner-spring mattresses (and not cheap ones, either) and this issue, combined with a lack of space in our 350 sf studio, led my finacee and I to replace our bed and a loveseat with the TYLOSAND over a year ago. The cushions never slip, btw. The modern lines of the couch, as well as the colour (we got the beige) fit perfectly into our space, and the foam is very comfortable to sleep on, not to mention the affordability of the darn thing. Of course, we invested into a thicker mattress pad as well, since the couch is really too thin for every night sleep. And as a bonus, the back and arm cushions, when arranged on the floor, make a wonderful and comfy double guest bed, as enjoyed by 6 separate house guests in the past year.
i have the Tylosand sofa (not sleeper) and i love it and so does every one else who sits on it. it is extremely comfortable if you are the loungy/ throw your legs up on the couch kinda person. it NEVER slipped off. and the covers are washable. my only complaint is that it seems to be sinking in where i sit. but i think if i fluff it out, it'll be ok. it looks really nice in my living room too. but like someone mentioned, it might be a matter of personal taste. plus, i think its the longest couch they carry and thats what i needed- just incase someone needs to crash on it. yes, it is long enough for most people (or most of my shorty friends). i always end up passing out on it :)
tylosand sofa itself to me is wide enough to use as a single bed. We purchased 2 of them and push them together to use as a full size bed when we have extra guests. Same price of a sofa bed. We have a tylosand sofa review too if anyone is interested.


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Fresh Spring Rolls with Dipping Sauce
Randy Mayor; Jan Gautro
Fresh spring rolls are packed with shrimp and crisp colorful vegetables such as carrot, bell pepper and cucumber. Fresh ginger and lime juice contribute to the flavor of the dipping sauce.
Yield: 6 appetizer servings (serving size: 2 rolls and 2 teaspoons sauce)
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 101
- Calories from fat: 7%
- Fat: 0.8g
- Saturated fat: 0.2g
- Monounsaturated fat: 0.1g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.3g
- Protein: 7.8g
- Carbohydrate: 16.8g
- Fiber: 2.1g
- Cholesterol: 44mg
- Iron: 1.7mg
- Sodium: 418mg
- Calcium: 40mg
- Dipping Sauce:
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 tablespoon chile paste with garlic
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 teaspoons grated peeled fresh ginger
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- Spring Rolls:
- 12 (8-inch) round sheets rice paper
- 3 green leaf lettuce leaves, quartered
- 3 cups fresh broccoli sprouts or alfalfa sprouts
- 36 (2-inch) julienne-cut carrot strips
- 36 (2-inch) julienne-cut cucumber strips
- 36 (2-inch) julienne-cut yellow bell pepper strips
- 24 medium shrimp, cooked, peeled, and halved lengthwise
- 36 fresh mint leaves
- To prepare sauce, combine first 7 ingredients, stirring with a whisk until sugar dissolves; set aside.
- To prepare spring rolls, add hot water to a large, shallow dish to a depth of 1 inch. Place 1 rice paper sheet in dish; let stand 30 seconds or just until soft. Place rice paper sheet on a flat surface. Arrange 1 lettuce piece in center of sheet. Top with 1/4 cup sprouts, 3 carrot strips, 3 cucumber strips, 3 bell pepper strips, 4 shrimp halves, and 3 mint leaves. Fold sides of sheet over filling; roll up jelly-roll fashion. Gently press seam to seal. Place spring roll, seam side down, on a serving platter (cover to prevent drying).
- Repeat procedure with remaining rice paper, lettuce, sprouts, carrot, cucumber, bell pepper, shrimp, and mint. Serve with dipping sauce.
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In the wake of the conflict in Gaza, three communities became flash points of violence and began contending with hatred they thought was buried in the past.
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Israel's occupation of Arab lands and its standoff with the Palestinians have become so divisive that many rabbis say it is impossible to have a civil conversation about Israel in their synagogues.
September 23, 2014, Tuesday
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Sampling the outpouring of letters taking issue with an editorial.
September 23, 2014, Tuesday
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Fiona Rose-Greenland of the University of Chicago writes that the "restoration of humanistic society in postwar Europe is unfinished business."
September 22, 2014, Monday
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Exploring the World's Jewish Communities
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September 21, 2014, Sunday
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The American Freedom Defense Initiative proposed an ad for New York City buses that the transportation agency said "would imminently incite or provoke violence."
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September 20, 2014, Saturday
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The Met Opera Stands Firm
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September 20, 2014, Saturday
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September 19, 2014, Friday
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September 17, 2014, Wednesday
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Obama Speaks About Kansas Shootings
The president honored those killed in shootings at two Jewish centers in Kansas, saying no one should have to worry about their security while praying with their fellow believers.
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Israelis Split Over Service
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Netanyahu Demands Recognition of Israel
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A big fan of movies like The Princess Bride and The Parent Trap, Victoria Pantaleo was immediately intrigued by the elegance of fencing.
However, her sojourn into the timeless sport began with a warm-up component that was the furthest thing from graceful — and hardly enjoyable.
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Commissioner Gary Bettman also took to the podium and issued an apology for the events which led to the 113-day lockout, the third of his tenure.
"I'm sorry. I know an apology or explanation isn't enough, but I owe you an apology. I read the letters, I followed the tweets. I read the blogs. We have a lot of work to do ... that effort begins today."
Bettman would not specify what exactly those effort will be, stating: "That's in the process of being worked on. It will be announced at the appropriate time. There will be outreaches and efforts that will be made clear."
No official word has been given, but TSN of Canada reports that the players' union vote to ratify the CBA will occur on Friday and Saturday.
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In an otherwise boring game, Ersan Ilyasova played the finest basketball of his career. Ersan set a new career high in points and rebounds and achieved all kinds of other cool accomplishments in doing so. Hat tip to the Milwaukee Bucks public relations staff for pumping out all kinds of great facts right after the game on Twitter. And we'll tip that hat one more time to Michael Lee of the Washington Post for inspiring tonight's lame photoshop.
- He is just the sixth Bucks player in the past 25 years with a 20/20 game. He joins Andrew Bogut, Terry Cummings, Vin Baker, Dan Gadzuric and Ervin Johnson. Bizarre group.
- Ersan joins Swen Nater and Kareem Abdul-Jabar as the only players in Bucks history with 29+ points and 25+ rebounds in a game.
- First NBA player with 29/25 since Kevin Love had 31 and 31.
- Ilyasova tied a Bucks record with 11 rebounds in the first quarter.
- Ersan fell just two offensive rebounds short of Milwaukee's team record of 15, held by Nater.
He's always been a strong rebounder. When Ilyasova was on his way back to the Bucks after spending two sesaons in Europe, it was his rebounding totals that seemed most likely to translate. But Ersan has taken his rebounding up a level this season. Ilyasova came into Sunday's game averaging 7.9 rebounds per game and had a career best 18.4 total rebound rate. His previous highs are 6.4 rebounds per game and a 15.5 total rebound rate.
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South African great Victor Matfield launched a far better defence of the Barbarians than the one his side managed on the pitch after their 60-11 thrashing by Australia at Twickenham on Saturday.
It was not the way the Barbarians captain would have wanted to bow out of rugby in what was the 110-times capped lock's last match before retirement.
Ever since rugby union turned professional, there have been questions about whether the Barbarians, the 15-man code's leading invitational side and a club with its roots deeply embedded in the amateur era, could still function effectively against the world's top Test teams.
But those doubts appeared to have been dispelled by the club's recent Twickenham triumphs against New Zealand (2009) and South Africa (2010).
Lock forward Matfield, who played in the Barbarians' 25-18 win against the All Blacks in 2009, was in no doubt of the worth of the fixture and the importance of the club's ethos to modern-day rugby.
"When you come up for the Barbarians you don't have a lot of training, so some days you click, other days you struggle a bit," he said.
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"Australia are a full international side and they know each other pretty well," added the 34-year-old Matfield, now set to pursue a career in broadcasting and as a coaching consultant with former Super Rugby side the Bulls.
"It was a fantastic week and, even though we lost the game by so many points, I will remember it for a long time.
"The Barbarians have two out of three now in the last three years against the southern hemisphere teams so why shoot them down after one bad game?" added Matfield, one of rugby's greatest lineout jumpers.
"I think it's a fantastic idea and we need this in rugby. It's the only time we really get to know the other top players."
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Hansen said the fact Australia were using this match as a warm-up for next weekend's full international in Cardiff against Wales - the team they beat in the third-place play-off at the World Cup - had a huge impact upon the result.
"Having coached a side that's played the Barbarians and actually lost to them, after four Test matches in four weeks and then having a fifth game, it's a lot different," Hansen explained.
"I agree with Victor. The Barbarians concept is magnificent for rugby and we should hang on to it for as long as we can."
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"They came to see people score tries," said Hansen. "Unfortunately, the 'wrong' side scored them but there was plenty of them.
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[This message edited by Bdell at 3:18 AM, January 21st (Tuesday)]
[This message edited by Bdell at 3:25 AM, January 21st (Tuesday)]
Did your BS ever tell you they wanted to trust you but were afraid to?
How did that make you feel?
Is it something you can work through together?
What can the BS & WS do to help BS learn to trust again?
I'd suggest you post in General or Reconciliation, mention "WS welcome" and layout the specifics for comment.
I'm thinking you'll hear things like "hard 180", "his belongings on lawn in Hefty bags", D papers drawn and served, transparency, and counseling.
Is being married to an unremorseful asshole who is rubbing your face in it something you are willing to live with? This sounds to me like way more than just wayward fog.
Time for the spike covered bitch boots to come out and find his crotch, ass, or both!
Good luck. JD
[This message edited by JustDesserts at 5:56 AM, January 21st (Tuesday)]
I don't know if that helps. Tell your wayward H what you're afraid of and see how he replies. Ask him how he is and plans to earn your trust.
I did not take it that way. You were flagged for coming across disrespectfully to the waywards in this forum, as decided by the team of moderators. Kindness goes a long way when asking for help.
"That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt."
So I was wondering what methods you WS's use to regain the love/desire that the affair destroyed?
Bdell: I never stopped loving and desiring my BW, before, during, or after my affair. Before and during, I picked away at her and our marriage as a way to justify my actions. If she was a crappy wife, and our marriage sucked, then why should I feel bad about creating an alternate reality and "love"?
The day I was caught, and as the fog lifted, I began to see my wife and our marriage clearly again. I realized the love I felt for her the moment we met was still there. And will be until the day I die.
And when she forgave me, I learned what true love really is. Despite her hurt pride, deep pain, and justified righteous ability to exact revenge, or put a short leash on me and lord over me, she chose "None of the above".
She chose to believe in me and our love and forgive. Forgiveness being the hardest, most scary thing a BS can do. And that gift to me made me realize just how powerful love can be, and just how in love with her I am. How lucky I am.
My love and desire for my BW surged when I was given trust and forgiveness. I feel and love her in new ways at new depths because of that gift SHE gave me.
I have been asking WH to try to figure out how he could do this. We have a lot of his hows (bad boundaries, able to compartmentalize, need for validation, poor communication, and an extreme feeling of disconnection from me and our son) but I need him to try to go deeper. I want him to really look at what he was feeling before and during and figure out why doing this was an option for him. I really think this is the only way for us to heal and for me to feel "safe".
Yesterday he really made a good start. He sent me a lot of information about how he was feeling and we had a long talk afterward. It meant a lot to me for him to do this.
My question is how can I encourage him to keep it up? Is there anything you all did that really helped you dig deeper? I know I can't control his healing but he says he is having a hard time figuring out where to look. He's probably going to have to deal with a lot of pain but I don't want that to hold him back. I have suggested he post on the WS forum but think he doesn't really know what to ask.
Any suggestions for a WH who is starting to do the "real work"?
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[This message edited by AML04 at 6:38 AM, January 21st (Tuesday)]
The only thing I can think of to do is to be an absolutely open book-- he knows every account and password I have, I'm working on letting him fully into my thoughts, even if I'm worried that it will bother him, and I try to never forget that my primary responsibility is now to make him feel safe, and valued, and cared for, all of the things I didn't do before. I hope the trust will build over time, but I don't know if it will ever be back to what it was before.
[This message edited by kmom2662 at 1:11 PM, January 21st (Tuesday)]
Who initiated the R in your relationship and what caused that to happen? My WW had said previously that maybe we could be friends in a couple of years and I said no because it would mess with my recovery as she would have tried to change back to the person I fell in love with. I guess to me it seems unlikely that a couple could R after a divorce given what transpired. Thanks again for responding, it is appreciated! Having the ability to have WS's answer questions helps to try and help a BS when the other is unremorseful.
Who initiated the R in your relationship and what caused that to happen? My WW had said previously that maybe we could be friends in a couple of years and I said no because it would mess with my recovery as she would have tried to change back to the person I fell in love with. I guess to me it seems unlikely that a couple could R after a divorce given what transpired. Thanks again for responding, it is appreciated! Having the ability to have WS's answer questions helps to try and help a BS when the other is unremorseful.
My XH asked to R. We were making small talk at work one day when he pretty much out of the blue said he made a huge mistake in divorcing me and wondered if I'd consider R. I'd made it known since D-day that I wanted to R, so of course I said yes. Going strong 21 months now.
I definitely didn't try to change back into the person my XH fell in love with. I'm actually very different in most ways from the person he fell in love with. I think that's actually what made R successful.
Question to WS's now divorced
If you ended up divorced were you mad at spouse for not R? For 1 year after my D with absolutely NC during or after the D my ex continued to mess with my mail, email and gave out my phone # to people. Seems like he wanted the D so why would he be so mad? Any thoughts
No, I wasn't mad at XH at all. I didn't feel "entitled" to R and in fact I very much deserved to be divorced. And honestly, crazy as it sounds, the divorce was one of the best things that ever happened to me. It's very unfortunate that it had to come at the expense of my XH's feelings but it's what made me straighten up and grow up.
For XWS did you see the OP as a weapon used to destroy your family? Why would WS want to protect and defend OP (weapon) over his/her family? Why would WS continue to invest in OP when everything of value has been lost? Can't understand why retrieval and repolishing of the thrown away "diamond" be the focus for WS?
No, I did not see the OP as a weapon used to destroy my family. I see him as an entitled person who didn't care about my XH (we had no kids and I didn't consider us two a family). During my affair, I held no consideration to the fact that XH and I were married and I had made promises to him. I considered them to basically be equal possibilities for a relationship for my future---nothing more, nothing less. I was very self-centered and looking back considered my wedding vows (entire marriage, really) meaningless. I clearly had no business being married. Post-D-day, I didn't continue to invest in the OP but I also didn't consider everything of value to have been lost.
[This message edited by heartbroken0903 at 8:32 PM, January 21st (Tuesday)]
Married 2.5 years
D-day 3/6/10
Divorced 5/14/10
Remarried. Reconciliation is a process and I still struggle.
I was wondering what methods you WS's use to regain the love/desire that the affair destroyed?
I did nothing. It was my H's prerogative to love me or not - whether I deserved it or not. I could be a jerk and it would be his decision to love me. Or I could be a saint and it would be his decision that the A was a deal breaker. His decision to keep loving me was not mine to influence.
What can the BS & WS do to help BS learn to trust again?
I don't think the WS can do anything. The BS makes the decision to trust or not. Every supposedly trustworthy action can hide cheating. So it's up to you to decide and set a boundary for yourself that if you ever discover infidelity again that you will know how to enforce it, however you decide.
If he/she only has the affair to base the decision on, then he/she would be a fool to R.
Why not base your decision on just the affair?
If, on the other hand, the WS has done and is doing all in their power to prove themselves, the decision would be based on actual, provable evidence.
You are not proving anything to a court beyond a reasonable doubt. All you need to do is find what works for you. If your wife were the perfect, passionate, caring wife to you from now on, you still don't need to R.
And then there are people who live their WSes, they just do. In spite of "evidence", they still do.
What I want to know is what you are doing or have done to prove that you love and desire him, above the AP.
You are assuming that the AP was a love relationship. I have never needed to prove anything - to compare my H to the AP is an insult to my H. The AP never had anything over my H. And I do not feel the need to "prove" any of this.
If you kind of think of the AP as alcohol, for example... People say "it's me or the bottle", as if the bottle had anything over the spouse. It's not like that. Even if a WS is too weak to give up the bottle (affair), that does not mean the bottle (AP) is "better".
If no one feels comfortable answering, clearly I understand.
"What God has joined together, let man... no man put asunder" -Pastor at our wedding concluding the ceremony
2 Cor 12:9-10
Me: fBH 46
Her: exWW 42
DDay: Nov 1, 2012
Divorced: September 17, 2013


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Unlike most people, Ryan Villopoto will have nothing to lose when he heads to Las Vegas next weekend.
Villopoto clinched his third straight Monster Energy AMA Supercross 450 series championship on Saturday night at Rice-Eccles Stadium — regardless of what happens at the series finale in Sin City — by holding off Davi Millsaps and Ryan Dungey in a tight race he led from start to finish.
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"It was a crazy race," Villopoto said. "Any little mistake, and it was going to be anybody's game."
Millsaps was in Villopoto's shadow from the time he passed Dungey on the second lap, but could never quite reel in the series champion in front of the largest crowd in the event's nine-year history in Salt Lake City, some 43,149.
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And it was quite likely the last AMA Supercross event in Salt Lake City in the foreseeable future, despite the record crowd. The tour will release its 2014 schedule on Friday, and SLC is not on it.
Supercross was here for four years from 2001-2004, then returned in 2009 for a five-year run that ended with Villopoto on the victory stand. An outdoor motocross event will be held at Miller Motorsports Park on Aug. 17, and Villopoto and his closest competitors Saturday night should be there.
"Ryan rode a great series," Dungey said. "He's a champion, and he showed it again this year."
Jason Anderson of Edgewood, N.M., aboard a Suzuki RM-Z250, took the drama out of the 250 main event, passing Zach Osborne on the second lap and cruising to the win, his first in the series.
"It was actually easier than I thought it would be," Anderson said.
Anderson finished second to Eli Tomac of Cortez, Colo., last year, his first podium finish.
"Utah gives me some good vibes, I guess," he said, noting that it would be a "bummer" if Utah loses its Supercross event.
Actually, the most drama in the 250 class came before the main event.
Ken Roczen of Murrieta, Calif. — points leader in the 250 class entering Saturday night's event, leading Tomac 163-143 — did not even qualify for the main 250 race, and left the event without any points. He was part of a pileup at the start of the 250 second-chance qualifier, and battled back to close in on the top two who would move on, Travis Baker and Topher Ingalls, but couldn't quite catch Ingalls.
With the chance to move into first in the series with just one race left — next week at Las Vegas — Tomac didn't capitalize as much as he could have, and finished in sixth place. Roczen now has a five-point lead, 163-158, heading into Las Vegas.
The night started off with a bang. In the first 250 heat, David Pulley of Corona, Calif., went end-over-end off one of the smaller jumps on his Yamaha YZ250F as the crowd gasped and was down for a bit before walking off with assistance.
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SEAL Team Six
Naval Special Warfare Development Group, otherwise known as 'DEVGRU' or 'SEAL Team 6', is a Counter Terrorism unit administered by US Naval Special Warfare Command. An elite within an elite, the unit is made up of SEALs selected from existing SEAL Teams. DEVGRU is considered a 'Tier One' special mission unit on a par with the Army's Delta Force. SEAL Team Six is under operational command of JSOC.
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SEAL Team 6 was eventually disbanded and, in 1987, its role, minus non-CT ship boarding which was handed off the newly formed SEAL team 8, was given to the newly formed Naval Special Warfare Development Group (NSWDEVGRU or DEVGRU). Although ostensibly a new organization, DEVGRU was manned by many SEAL Team 6 operators and carried on with the same ethos and standard operating procedures. Although no longer its official name, the 'SEAL Team Six' moniker has stuck to the unit, especially with regards to its portrayal in the media.
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- 2011 - Pakistan - Osama Bin Laden Killed
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How to Play the Real Estate Rebound
Mark is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
More signs that the real estate market has bottomed out and is on an upward track were evident in two recently released reports:
1) The S&P/Case Shiller index indicated that prices of single-family homes has increased 6% year-over-year at the end of 2012, the best showing in six years. Only one metro area (NYC) out of 20 reported a decrease.
2) The U.S. Commerce Department reported that sales of new homes hit a 4 1/2 year high and jumped 15.6% to a seasonally adjusted 437,000-unit annual rate in January. Sales of existing homes increased about 9%.
There are companies in many diverse industries benefiting from the housing turnaround.
All those new homes will probably need some work done to them.
An announcement by Home Depot (NYSE: HD) that it will initiate a $17 billion stock buyback program and raise its dividend by 34% was probably partly tied to the on-going housing rebound. The company also reported fiscal 4th quarter earnings of $1.02 billion, up from $774 million a year earlier. Revenue increased 14% to $18.2 billion. Home Depot predicts a 2% revenue gain this year and full year earnings growing to about $3.37 per share; but this is relatively conservative guidance according to many analysts.
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