Thanks, Sara. I felt good after the phone call (until I read OT's warning not to give away any strategy ;0)

I was calm and sounded confident. He was immediately uncomfortable, and just kept saying We'll talk about it on Monday, getting more and more quiet. I hope it did set him back a bit. I'm glad his brother was there, since he can't rush off to commiserate with CW right away and actually has to THINK about it all by himself, at least until he drops his brother off. And he can't / won't say anything to bro--"Can you believe her? Wanting me to live up to my promises to provide stability to the kids and the finances, plus never having my girlfriend around my children?! B!itch!!" Yeah, no sympathy from him!

I'm off in a while to take the kids shopping for school, then back to clean house and pack :0)

Hope that CW's boob falls off today during surgery.