Coppin' a New 'tude

[mcojh]

Well, I survived it. Not the result I personally wanted, but not a terrible outcome either. We both told our stories as to what brings us to the C. I did a good job in not sounding pathetic and only wanting the M to work. CW took her turn and somewhat emotionally stated that she was there to see how we could be better divorced parents. My inside the head voice said "wake up and wuit the A????" It was relatively emotional for her, not me. I teared up a couple times but never more than that. Part of it was that I was in uniform as I had to go back to work and that changes my state of mind somewhat.

CW agreed to see him again. He seems nice and at first I started to dislike him because he went into a discussion as to how divorce works that if one party wants it and the other doesn't it doesn't matter and that it will happen anyway. He talked about the grief involved etc and I started to think the guy was just rolling over and that there was nothing he could do to help. Then it dawned on me that he never once looked at me during this, he was only looking at her. He also suggested using mediation rather than a adversarial divorce. Again I wondered what he was doing, but then I wondered if he is starting the process and he is building one or both of us up for the end result.

Who knows.

Theo if you are around, give me a call. I will be up for a bit (about an hour)