I have another telephone conference with my L tomorrow about this. I also know that W is now getting ready to file a motion for D. I'm not worried about that any longer, in fact given all the h*ll this limbo has given me, I am ready to say bring it.
<journaling> Tonight W called after 8 PM. Her call came in on the Caller-ID as "PRIVATE CALLER" -- this has been happening a lot lately and I see it as her being annoyingly obvious that she is calling from OM's phone. All other phones show up as a particular known number. So I almost didn't pick up again -- for all I know these could have been calls from unwanted solicitors.
Tonight she got a bit perturbed when I told her she was coming in as a private caller again. She responded, "Yeah, so what?!?" I simply replied, "So, don't do that!" and handed the phone to S8.
After the call she sent me a nastygram via email:
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Please don't ever prevent me from talking to my sons. (I think you put that in the sep agreement. Which you should have signed when you had the chance). You don't own me. They know who it is (I heard S8 screaming on my answering machine the last time you played that silly "I don't know who it is because it says private caller" game. You know who it is if it is near 8 pm. You only hurt the boys by not answering. They don't care how my number shows up. They just need to know they are cherished. That is why I call. Thank you, W
She was punching/hammering my buttons again, yes. I sent this reply:
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You know you really need to lighten up.
You most certainly screen your own calls against strangers, but you still think you can dictate to me that I cannot do the same? I have been trying to teach S8 that we do not answer calls from people we do not know, as per the cub scouts achievements for safety and security, but you want to abrogate that because you refuse to call from one of the twoknown portable phones in your possession? Get over yourself.
It's simple -- don't try to contact us using stranger's phones.
After everything she's put us through and continues to do so, I am starting to hate her. God help me.
