Last night I had problems sleeping. I guess reconciling my feelings emotionally with my logic center telling me that the risk of reconciling opens me up to too great a risk if it ever happens. With the way today's laws are, how long before a fake DV allegation is made? You don't get much of a chance to defend yourself before getting railroaded into the system.
Went to see D1 this morning. She had taken another child's shoe and was walking around the room with it. She kept smiling and giggling. When I went to leave the daycare worker was telling her, "D1 go give your daddy a hug bye because you know you'll cry when he leaves." Sure enough, when I went to leave she chased me to the door and started going "Dada!" and crying. The daycare worker said "I told you so."
I've built a pretty good rapport with some of the workers now, and although they haven't mentioned my exposure email I know at least four of them have read it, and I'm sure it is making the rounds in terms of gossip. I'm sure it makes the fantasy a little less appealing... especially since they've seen a "darker" side of W in the way she's been blaming, etc. me for everything and now a lot of that is being re-examined in light of new information that wasn't a part of the initial "brief" she gave everyone.
Now I just continue killing with kindness. I'm curious to see how W/MIL respond tomorrow morning when I pick up D1. Anger should be short-lived if they have any conscience at all... but I'm beginning to doubt they are capable of empathy. Since the drama started I haven't heard them ask a single time if I was handling things okay. There has been no shortage of personal attacks and threats.
"You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into."