Well, immediately after checking this board last night, I got an email from W. saying she is changing attorneys, her actual word was "retained"...love it!
She was originally using a lawyer from the firm where she works. (It WASN'T the attorney who's USING HER). From the start, this had a certain odor to it, and I couldn't believe they allowed her to even think of using one of their attorneys.
The phone conference with her re: "co-parenting" (I HATE all this divorce vernacular, it's like "your father" rather that "Dad" Yech!!!) was tense. She told how tired she was of dealing with D16 "all alone", and how I was not forcefull enough in insisting D16 spend time with me when she didn't want to. The therapist thought I should insist that D16 spend more time with me, so that the "current caregiver" could get a break.
Maybe some validity to that D16 said she didn't like to eat around me for whatever reason, but last Tuesday, she told her therapist we had a good time, which we did, so this may ease that transition when she comes home.
If the "current caregiver" didn't need to be "happy" this would not be an issue...Oops. Was I cynical..again?
