"You know I'd never screw you over "( as in the financial settlement)
"Don't try to make me feel guilty by bringing up the kids. They're MY kids too, you know" (this after going months without contact with them)
"They (the kids) have their own lives to live"..(reasoning as to why he/she should be able to do whatever they want now)
"You deserve better and so do I" (yep...won't even comment on that one)
"We've grown apart", "We've outgrown each other"
"We don't have anything in common" (Again, hmmmm. Does an OP the same age as his/her kids have more in common with him/her?)
"I'm sorry I wasn't as strong as you". (?????? WTH????)
"Leave my mother out of this" (said as WAS is living with their mother, and MIL is DEFINITELY involved with WAS decision making)
"I do not whine" (said in a whiney voice)
"I don't know (repeat this phrase whenever any question is asked..even if it's just to ask them what they want for a meal!!LOL)
"I have enough frustration at work, I don't need more when I come home"..(as the answer for not being able to answer the above question of what they would like to eat. Yup..actually happened)
"Why do you want to know"
"I always have to initiate..why do you never initiate" (well, if you ever give a person a chance in between, and perhaps just a LITTLE romance, maybe they would)
"I'll help out, just ask" (but when they see you disposing of household items because you have to sell the house they don't offer. Or when you're trying to maintain said household on your own, inside/outside, and your mother gets injured by a power saw trying to help out...WAS doesn't jump to help or apologize, or even call his/her MIL to offer apology for not doing work in the first place)
"We just went to a movie..it doesn't mean anything (Answer you get when your own sons have 'outed' dad to you, letting you know his vehicle was outside OP residence most nights of the week) And of course, he hasn't even filed or 'decided' he wants divorce yet.
Yup....
The companion doll..let me think about that one awhile. Of course, the head of the doll would have nothing but an empty space between the ears.
Women are angels. And when someone breaks our wings, we simply continue to fly...on a broomstick. We are flexible
