Mickey - I read your post there. Glad to hear about your son.
My h sent us all gifts thi year - mine was a book - not as impersonal as it might sound because I love to read.
I also noticed that the address on the package was NOT the OWs [he was in France] but a small town about 30 minutes away! Unless they have both moved there, but it is a horrible small town . . who knows? Anyway he is in the UK now and his sons [2 and 3] have gone to see him today. Son 2 askd me about what I thought about him seeing h, and whether it would do any good. We had a long talk about MLC and his father's behaviour, and he decided to visit, and son3 decided to go too. They know it may well be tough, but they have decided that he is their father and they should go on trying to be kind andloving to him, even if he is rejecting of them.
Hmmmm, I am proud of them
Got invited to go skiing, but son 2 is staying over the New year, + friends are arriving. So I will go later. Nice to be asked! rather a good looking man in the skiing party too