D1 was doing well this morning. She's moved up to the big girl room in the nursery, so she gets to basically play with different toys and be watched by different ladies which is fine. She was walking and talking gibberish, and didn't pay me as much mind besides smiling when she heard my voice and looking at me.

I saw W, said "Hey" and smiled. She sort of half smiled and looked away from me. Her stomach is becoming quite noticeable and this may have something to do with the overwhelming karma that is headed her way on the legal front. Is it wrong for me to take some satisfaction from this? This isn't how I wanted my M to turn out, but I suppose this is my D too, and I should have as much "fun" with it as I can. In all honestly this has been a nerve-wracking experience and I've gone through (I believe) the worst of it initially. Now it seems like smooth sailing for me, and W seems to be the one going through the rough times.

Today is the day I gave myself internally to focus on the D completely if I hadn't seen any positive traction from W in terms of moving back towards the M.

So what have I seen? W/MIL basically sucking up to me for the past several weeks. W making small talk and acting "nice" lately, but I haven't seen anything concrete. No "H we need to talk." She's probably too ashamed, guilt-ridden, etc. at this point, but it is almost like she is paralyzed legally as I've taken the entire case and turned it into a nightmare for them. Then again I don't know what else she expected when she took me of all people to court considering my track record.

In this situation in my state the average father probably loses 99% of the time on custody. My lawyer has been shocked at how quickly and successfully the case has been progressing on our end since the initial bluster and bluffing of W's attorney was shown to be smoke & mirrors and I was shown to have quite the stacked deck of cards on my end.

43 days. In that time:
W has to produce discovery
W has to testify under oath for deposition
W has to have completed a psychological evaluation

I would be surprised if she does 1/3 of that. Meanwhile... I'm preparing to file motions to compel and contempt of court if she doesn't. And if she doesn't complete #3 I'm sure the Judge won't be too pleased with her, considering he ordered the thing.

Reality is about to intrude on the fantasy world W/MIL inhabit.

"You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into."