I got a short, terse request from xW last night. She apparently has a half day off on Friday and now wants to pick the kids up early, at noon time. I sent her back a response that I would think about it.
After all the cr*p she's dumped on me when I have simply asked for an early transfer of custody for a special occasion (I am recalling April 3 very distinctly now), she has a lot of nerve to ask me to do the same. And then to have suffered the pain and indignity of having to haggle with her for time with our S's on Father's Day, of all days, ... !!!
It's like she doesn't think I too might actually value my time with our S's.
But I really don't want to act as pettily as she has. It's not that I really care now that she is treated fairly or not; it's that for my own conscience and my own spiritual health I need to practice humility and magnanimity. I can't save her but I have to do as Christ bids me, and it is for my sake and for the sake of my S's that I not act out of vindictiveness like she does. Otherwise, I would quickly tell her where to shove her request.
I just don't like feeling like a patsy when I do act kindly towards her -- she always tries to make me regret it later.
Like I said, though, I am still thinking about it.
