Enjoying the "single" W-A-L-K (Faith 54)

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I took one of those baby steps tonight. The friend is sending an email to the guy that I think is S22's bio-father. I'm awaiting her reply. If it's him, I'm going to go ahead and send the email I wrote for him. I should know something this weekend, I hope, assuming he replies. Wish me luck.

We had family night tonight. It's a new thing. Well, kinda new. We would get together sometimes, but not on a regular basis. Since S22 moved in last month, and then out again, we made a pact that every other Friday, on the weekends that I have S14, we would have dinner and games/movies/etc... We just didn't see each other enough over the past two years, and we're trying to change that.

S14 was a bit of a pain through part of it, which seems to be normal when we all get together, but we just went on and made the best of our time together. He is the one that missed out, if you ask me.

It just irritates me when he mouths off, especially knowing that he wouldn't dare do that at his dad's house. I finally snapped when he told me I was being selfish, and I sent him to his room. We continued enjoying ourselves, but his evening was pretty much a bust after that.

I hope he isn't like that next time too. Ugh.

Speaking of the ex, a bunch of stuff went down at their house last weekend when S14 was there. Ex's W (the OW) was in one of her "moods" and made everyone aware of it. It's nuts the stuff she was doing and saying. S14 called me on Saturday morning, wanting to come home. I told him to talk to his dad.

They ended up leaving (like they do when she has one of those moods) and spent the day at my ex SIL's house. Ex-H brought S14 home Saturday night, and he spent the rest of the weekend with me.

S14 and ex-H talked a little about it. It is obvious that ex is a bit over her mood swings. He even told S14 that she needs to get help or talk to someone, but when he tries to suggest that it gets even worse.

I'm glad that he at least had enough sense to get S14 out of the situation that weekend and also talk to him. I can tell it meant a lot to S14 that his dad understood and agreed that she was out of line with her behavior.

I just hope it isn't one of those times when ex-H comes back to S14 later and says that she was right with how she felt. It ticked me off last time that happened.

It's beem 5 years since ex's friend confided in me about her mood swings, and them thinking she was a bit bi-polar. (Some of the old-timers may remember that conversation and how shocked I was in hearing it.)

It looks like nothing has changed. LOL. Poor guy! I hope he got what he wanted!!