Cristina V

My husband of 5 years has been increasingly withdrawn over the last couple of months. We had an argument last week and we both left. He's been wishy-washy about "I'm leaving... Leaving won't solve anything." I've talked to him twice in the past week. He says he loves but I just yell at him too much and that he's been unhappy. He never said anything. Looking back, I see I've made a lot of mistakes and have told him so and I've told him I want to work this out and learn to communicate better and get this marriage thing right. He says he loves me, he wants to work it out, that he's broken and needs time. He doesn't know how much time. The last time I spoke to him a few days ago he became agitated, I apologized for calling (he said don't apologize) and hung up. I've decided that I need a couple of months to get my own life back on track and I can't do that if he's here. I wrote him a letter explaining that, telling him how sorry I am for hurting him this way, and that he's got all the time he needs. I want to keep him informed of how we're doing here (he's currently about 300 miles away) so I call his cell phone and leave a message every other day or so about what's been going on, how our son is doing in school, etc. Keeping it light and nonconfrontational. The phone's never on but I know he checks his messages. I also know there's not someone else. I'm not sure if I'm being too pushy by leaving those messages, if I should just not make any attempt to contact him, or if he's appreciating those messages and just doesn't feel up to talking to me in person for fear of being yelled at (which he told me and his brother).

Any help, please.

I see on his website programs to pay for 1) college tuition, 2) job training for "ex-offenders", 3) substance abuse and mental health counseling for "ex-offenders", 4) programs to help retrain workers, 5) double funding for research, 6) assistance to auto industry, 6) a mortgage credit... and so on. It's just a small bit of what's on the website (with no explanation as to how it will happen, just that it will), but how will all of this be funded, besides the obvious tax hikes?