Mixed Signals or Just My Imagination ?

[native]

'native, I'm thinking of you. Hang in there. You are doing the right thing. D5 needs a superhero, and guess what buddy, it's you. Peace.'

Sometimes it is hard to know what the right thing to do is. I really hope I am doing the right thing.

It is so confusing sometimes.

I've been trying to protect our D since she was 2 yo, and I realized W was pulling back from her. I have tried to be both mother and father to her.

I believe that somewhere, deep inside, the woman that I met and fell in love with is still there, but I am seeing less and less of that....

I am really having doubts that we will ever be able to make our R work.

I am trying to be D's superhero. She is the most wonderful ray of sunshine to me.

Today when I picked her up from afterschool and told her she was going to stay with Mommy in her new house, D groaned.

She knows I have much more patience with her and Mommy has the 'Grumpies'.

Later at W's house, W accuses me of being too lenient with D and says D is demanding*, which is a problem, but one that needs to be handled with patience and good examples.

*(But not nearly as much as W is however ;))