ok, the drama continues. There are two parallel threads here.
I had sent the empathy email earlier yesterday. Then in the evening I sent a text "Howdja sleep last night? I worry about you. 4 hrs/nt is not enough!" That's the empathy/friend thread.
Then, at 815pm, I found out she is away at the bball game.
I just saw the email she sent me last night 1115pm.
On the one hand, she is pissed and frightened about my reaction to her leaving the kids alone. She justifies it, tells me it's nothing, and asks me to not take any other legal action. On the other she is thanking me for the concern I showed about her well-being.
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the whole point of leaving the kids is so that they could have practice babysitting. Most children in our neighborhood start babysitting at 11. It's always been okay with us to have a 12 or 13 year old babysitters. Your niece babysat for us when she was 12. Our first babysitter, when we lived in our first house, was in 7th grade and had just turned 13. We left a crying infant with her for hours, if you recall and we had to go running home on more than one occasion. The boys had emergency contact information, I called them every hour, and I was home by 10:00.
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And for your information, I appreciate your concern you showed me earlier in the night. I am very sad that we have to sell the house. I am sorry that I have to sell my car. I don't know what my future will be with the kids. I don't know where we're going to live, what schools they'll have to go to, if you are going to support them reasonably, how long it is going to take me to get a job. There are a whole lot of big questions that I don't have answers to. It's not unreasonable for me to go out for a few hours with my one and only close friend here to talk some of this through.
