Spouse visa, Need advice please

[craig1974]

Hi All

Please can someone give me some advice and help on the following.
My wife was living here with me in the Uk, she is from colombia. She had a 2 year marriage visa. We seperated in May 2008 due to problems in our marriage.
She returned home, after about 5 months we started to contact each other in an effort to try and resolve our differences and safe our marriage which we now have. I contacted her first as it was me who made the mistakes.
We talk everyday now on the telpephne and write, we have been doing this since Nov 08, and we also email each other.
I want her to come back to the Uk, we know she will need to apply for another marriage visa, but honeslty what are our chances???? simply because we seperated, will this go against us in our hope of getting a visa?
I really am concerned and at my wits end as to what we can do, obviously we will tell the ECO all what as happended, but are our chances so low?
I have started to gather all documents together, bank statements, telephone calls, emails, and I even went there in november 2008 for 2 weeks to be with her, I have kept the airline reciepts for this trip which i will send as evidence. I will also send many household bills which are in out joint name when she was here to prove we where living together here in the UK during her last 2 year visa. My other concern is, when she left and we thought our marriage was over, I destroyed all our photos together, stupid I know, so now we have no pictures of us together and surely this will go against us!!! what can i do???
Is there anything else i could provide to make our case stronger? I have also written a letter to the ECO which i will send explaining our problems and why she returned home, at the end of the day we are being totally honest, we did have problems and we did seperate for 5 months with no contact, i did believe our marriage was over, but i went there in nov and we have both decided to save our marriage and realise where I went wrong, it was totally my fault she left.
I am really concerned, I have not read any other article on here about people seperating and then getting back together and needing to apply for a visa

Thank you in advance