Well, I’m back. I was away near an Nasiriyah in southern Iraq for four days. Plane ride from hell. Thanks for your interest in my whereabouts!
Anyhow, I got an email from W. before I left. It started out “Hi. How are you?” Believe it or not, that’s as much consideration I’ve gotten in well over a year, but noting to even get moderately worked up over. BTW: How do you THINK I am. I'm in Iraq and you want to rip apart the family?
She went on to say that she had heard that I would be returning in early July from D17., which is true. She then went on to say that if that was true, she would not send S8 to summer beach camp where he has gone the past two years.
Here’s the kicker. I love my son to death, and the beach camp is absolutely fabulous, but it costs roughly $3000 for two weeks. Easy to swing in days gone by, when we were a family, but WTF does she think is going on here? All indications are she is planning for a divorce, and there seems to be not even a thought of any scorched earth of the cost of a divorce, so 3K will hurt her as well. She had no problem taking the kids skiing last week, which I don’t care about, but I refuse to live in some guys garage, like last year, when I nailed myself on the martyr cross. I will write the letter tomorrow telling her of my plan to put money away for my return and share it with you guys for critique. I’ve got some good starter suggestions. Any more thoughts?
I am getting more angry than hurt by the moment. I’ll post in “Separated” and “Surviving” as it looks like I’m in transition.
