Status 2 - W friendlier but still very distant

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(1) While I've been performing at my job, being a single dad and DBing my a$$ off, my lawyer's been hammering out a "settlement" with W's side and informed me that its close to something reasonable now and advised me to OK it. If I was told this 3-4 months ago I'd have been relieved but now I'm feeling down after my DBing efforts and W cooling off!?

(2) I do not have the kids this week so I phoned them and also talked briefly to W this morning. W's studying for her exam so I offered to keep the kids if she wanted but so far she hasn't asked. Her tone was still "friendly" so I set up a breakfast meeting for Tuesday which W agreed to after a moment of hesitation.

(3) I'm planning to give the kids a nice box of (See's) chocolates in a gift bag this week for Valentine's day which they will take to W's place of course but I'm not stating its really for W since her primary LL's a are gifts and affirmation tho' not sure in what order. I'm being "sneaky" and "manipulative" here but I think its fair game after the hell I've endured.

Any thoughtful feedback on the above 3 bullets from wise DBers would be much appreciated, thanks.