Close encounters of the MLC kind

[hoosiermama]

...and I think there's some value in making H "work for it." He's turned my life upside down and permanently scarred D's life, and it's inappropriate for him to be able to just waltz away and have everything he wants just because he wants it. I don't know everything that's gone on, but it seems to me that there have been precious few repercussions for H's behavior. I have tried not to focus on that, sometimes more successfully than others. But this is so fundamentally and foundationally selfish and evil that it just shouldn't be so damn easy to do. I'm afraid that if I just went along and got it behind me as quickly as possible, I'd feel later like I had rolled over. And I promised D from the beginning that I'd do whatever I could to keep this family intact. Unfortunately that's beyond my power, but at least I don't have to make it easy--or simple. I won't do things out of spite or revenge, but I will make sure we're provided for.