Sweets, if you think the rat is writing the emails and provoking....and if xh is nice when you're nice and is in a phase where he is secretly looking at you fondly and wanting his old life back...i say do this.

ask xh, in a sweet nice tone, that you just love how the both of you co-parent when you talk directly. no emails. just on the phone or in person. be sweet, nice and deliver the declines nicely. seems he's the type of guy to react to that. plus, you look sweet and the rat looks horrible so he won't give you [censored] (who really cares what he thinks of anyone, just so that he acts decently to you regarding kids).

and cut her out altogether.

she seems so trashy it makes my skin crawl. she sounds so disgusting. how is he still with her? how did she procreate?

sweet but firm. always works with men.