Hypothetical questions here ... does she think she's better qualified to take them camping or does she think she's the more responsible parent? Or both?
Both. But she's deluding herself.
I do see it as a "green-light" to my original plans. S3 must have really matured in just a year's time, right?
Our church is inviting families on a camping trip around Memorial Day weekend -- that might offer the best time to try the boys out. W has just precipitated that which she had serious reservations about just this last Fall.
On another note, the mediator sent each of us a rough draft of the Separation Agreement (SA) she has been working on. Sadly, it did not surprise me that the wording was not what I would have liked to have seen. I have read a lot of SA examples and samples in the last month, so I've seen a wide gamut of terms and verbage. W's mediator is preparing a document with wording along the lines I feared she would -- pro-divorce oriented and anti-family, anti-father. The tone of the document is definitely weighted in favor of a wife who wants to divorce her husband. But I would be less concerned with the "form" of the document if it didn't also lack for the right "substance". I don't like the wording about the custody, and I still insist on 50-50 joint and physical custody.
The only good thing I saw in the mediator's version of the SA is that she did not use the word "visitation", like W has repeatedly.
Still, as it stands, I cannot accept this document or this agreement. I am debating now how to break the news to the both of them. I would like to talk to my L first, but I cannot get scheduled before the week after next.
