Thanks Kenn. What an all over the place weekend I just had. At one point as I was leaving the house on Friday, my wife asked me if I thought we were doing the right thing by getting divorced. She caught me so off guard all I could say was "I don't think I should answer that right now." Then she said "It's ok if you think that we should." She made plans to stay at the house last night (my night at the house) and to sleep in the guest bedroom. Then I got torpedoed. My mother went to pick up my daughter when I wasn't there, and took it upon herself to have a talk with my w. This despite the fact that I had asked her not to have anything but purely superficial interactions. She pointed out all the changes I had made, asked my wife if she had noticed them, and then basically asked my wife if she was sure and if she would re-consider. Long story short my wife reacted as if I had done all these things. She took a big step backward, cancelled the plans to stay over, and basically solidified all the objections whe had to me. Anyone else have this problem of having work destroyed by surrogate? Very frustrating.