Missed having you around here to comiserate with btw!
I had a very similar situation happen three saturdays ago.. I had to attend a meeting some miles away from home and w was made well aware of it months before hand.. anyway... about 10 minutes before I had to leave.. w says see you later.. and walks out the door essentially leaving me with the three kids... I stop her with a "Huh ?.. where are you going ?".. she tells me she is going to OM"s mothers home some 20 miles away.. well I told her I would have to stay home and not attend the meeting... she got angry but stayed home..
The Plan ? OM (age 50) and w were going to use mommys house while she was away at saturday evening Mass ! I later learned that mommy was a bit surprised to see her son at her house unannounced that afternoon...however she is encouraging the r because she cannot stand OM's current W...
You cannot make these situations up.. they are too crazy for fiction ! Their is nothing an unmedicated or self medicated mentally ill person will not do..oye !