OMG. This OW is so Springer-trashy it makes Springer look like Oprah.
This is amazingly unbelievable. And YOU felt insecure, less-than, inadequate compared to this women who has the security and ego of a gnat? That she has to lie to a child, and give a grown man speaking points when he is talking about HIS life with a woman he has known for nearly 2 decades. That she has to assert that this involves her, too.....when she is clearly told from all sides that she is not wanted.
What kind of a person does that? Insists that this is your issue, that you will be a good mother to kids that hate you, that the ex-W, who is nothing but sweet, is self-centered?
I swear, this woman is so tightly wound, it scares me. It doesn't seem like it would take much to make her come apart. Not to mention that she has no issue letting her own children see her bed a married man in their own home.
She's scum. Forget comparing her to you, she's just plain scum. I would be horrified to even be in the same room as a woman such as her. She is the woman I cringe at that makes us all look like trashy, stupid, vapid, insecure, dim-wits. I fear for her kids, and all the men she has brought into their lives and how little she apparently cares for them. Do you not think they hear all that she says in the background? She's so controlling b/c she is so immature.
Trust that your kids love you, they trust you. They told you that. They live with you and see your every move each day. You shine your values and life through your actions. You don't run your life like a loud-mouthed, ill-mannered, crazy, over-controlling, tramp. You had a horrible conversation, and still went out, had fun, because you have nothing to hide, you are not insecure, you are amazing. You don't need to talk from the background, manipulate facts and assert yourself in meaningless ways. That is not the woman you are.
You tell your kids the truth as they can handle it. You show them what a strong woman is. That a strong woman holds true to her values, paves a healthy path for her kids, and does what she needs for the family. A strong woman has nothing to hide, gets a job, is a great mom, friend, daughter, woman. A strong woman finds all this within herself, and shines it daily through her actions.
I am proud to know you. If nothing else, these awful interactions with the ow should prove to you how worthless she really is, and how worthless she feels inside. I have no pity for that.