Believe me -- this was not by choice. The W had already signed a lease to move into a 3-bedroom apartment taking MIL and our 2 S's, scheduled for week of July 9. She was dead-cert determined to have her own space -- with the MIL as her cheerleader, she was not bluffing, nor was she going to procrastinate, as some WAS's might do.
This h*ll-bent--for-leather separation was bad enough, but the fact that she was going to uproot our 2 S's to do so was too much for me to bear. It was so selfish and unfair to my children.
So I convinced her to cancel her lease, we'd both "eat" the lost deposit money and processing fees, and I would volunteer to be the one to leave and move into an apartment instead.
Wise or not, I sacrificed my own comfort for the sake of my sons. If the separation had to be, then I did not want them to have to pay for the stupidity of their parents.
