Like I said, they make it easy. The only bravery was having to worry about W freaking out while I had our S's away in another state. Up until the MLC she's been fairly rational, but since then there have been incidents where she's displayed such paranoia and suspicion of me and my motives (as if I am the one who's acting strange and untrustworthy). And W about had a major hysterical fit Labor day weekend when I took the boys fishing (all discussed/planned well in advance) and she couldn' reach me on the cell phone for about a one hour period. She had actually thought I had parentally kidnapped our children and was fleeing to another state.
So, you can see why I thought she was on edge with me having our S's with me on this trip out-of-state. I think that is the primary reason she was more friendly while we were away, and when we returned she saw that our S's were safely back home, then she could drop the niceties and go back to being cold.
She still doesn't trust me. That's okay; she has an even deeper hole to dig her herself out of with regards to my trust of her.
