Karen,

Thanks for dropping by! I have been reading your sitch and think your doing well!

Dropped off the kids yesterday and she was late coming back from spending the night at her wayward GF house with my D15.

I was brief, hugged the boys goodbye as I was tossing the football in the frontyard with them when she pulled up. I didn't engage her much if at all. Maybe I was a little too pulled back and should have a bigger PMA for her to see? That has just seemed to play into the normalizing that Puppy talks about though..

I am trying to engage her as little as possible right now. Taking away our previous normal communication patterns from our M. She seems somewhat affected by it as she is starting to not engage me (yesterday) as I dropped kids off.

I am trying to be cool but not cross the line to my previous patterns of complete withdrawal that helped cause this mess.

No activity on emailing others since I started to cool off my interaction with her. But we will see what happens this AM as soon as the kids are off to school. Thats when she gets active as she isn't working...

Trying to do this right. I think I need to give this time and see what happens over the next week...

V


***Getting up every day and learning to breathe in a new me. For me and my children***

Me: 43
W: 38
SD-15
S(s): 12,9,7
Separated-2/14/2009
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