Irish, I really appreciate your kindness. I really do.
Cat, my efforts to get S8 and S4 into counseling keeps being shot down by xW. Whenever I try to schedule somethign for either of them she says they have other more important plans. She also claims that the only thing needed is for special Autism counseling for S8 -- not Asperger's or HFA, but full Autism. I don't get her -- is she trying to inflate S8's special needs so as to pump up the child support payment?
I have to vent about something:
I am concerned that xW is taking our sons kayaking (with the OM) at an age she would tell me is far too young had I been the one trying to introduce them to this sport. I am certain she knows this particularly galls me because I, not her, have a lifelong enthusiasm for paddle sports. In fact, I was the one who first introduced her to it when we were dating. I've been canoeing and kayaking since I was about eleven years old.
I agreed with her there is a safety concern with young children and paddle sports. And I had planned to start them into the sport when they were older. Now she's jumped the gun on me, and that does make me quite jealous, I must admit. Again, I feel she has stolen from me something near and dear to my heart. It would be like Eddie Van Halen watching Valerie Bertinelli taking their kid to a local run-of-the-mill music shop to learn how to play the guitar.
But the hypocrisy of xW taking up activities with our S's she has always said were beyond their ages ("too dangerous", she'd say)... that takes nerve.
