Sweet justice in my opinion. What you wrote brings back memories.
My first brush with MLC came when I was about 10 or 11. My brother and I spent lots of vacation time at the farm of friends. (I wrote of this last week when the farmboy my age passed away suddenly a week ago today). Anyway, I was friends with a girl at the next farm. I often slept over there and her Mom did crafts with us. One day (I was not there), the girl's dad came home from work to see his wife's suitcases by the door. She was running off with the neighbour (farmer we always stayed with) who was leaving his wife and 3 sons. Her horrified H told her that she could choose the suitcases or the kids (D 10, S 8 and baby daughter). She chose the suitcases! 1 devestated neighbour families were left along with 6 children. I would listen to her go on about it to my Mom when we were there. It was awful and profoundly affected me. The next year, the runaway couple were blessed with TWINS!!! Poor twins, that's what I always thought.
Well, some things never change. For those of you who ask if these unions last - I'm sorry to say that this one did. They are still together. Still estranged from their kids. The dad did not even attend his son's funeral on Monday. But, the real question is "are they happy?". And that one is left to the imagination.
I agree with you - we don't want our exes to have more bad stuff since it does affect our kids. I hate that part. I am so proud of my dad and know my kids never will feel that way about theirs.
