Right now the thing that has me galled is that W has told me I now have to, in effect, report into the wicked MIL what the precise times I will be picking up and dropping off my sons at her place each day. I am the father here and yet I am being treated as subservient to her hostile, evil mother.
Why would you need to do that? H and I email each other about stuff like that, pickup times and schedules and activities and that. Maybe you could email your W with the info she wants, and if your W wants to share it with MIL, let her pass it on or do what she wants with it?
I try not to give any replies unless necessary, sometimes he wants a yes or no or something and I do that. I try to make it businesslike and professional and polite, but will admit to occasionally throwing in a little of my trademark trying to be funny stuff. Can't help it, who I am, but I have totally stopped with the smiley faces at least (to H). Karen