Can we not start another p*ssing contest, please? _________________
So. Continues the life of the "good catch" (AKA Trying Hard Not To Pity Him) divorcing middle-aged father of 2.
Today, after breakfast with extended family and a teary Granmaw, Themselves and I did some GAL activities, things I ordinarily - and had WAW been a part of the day certainly - would not have selected, and we had fun.
This afternoon / evening we went to a birthday party for a G6 whose family used to be neighbors in Coastal State but who last year moved to Swank Suburb of Big Midwestern City. And it was a great event for the kids, who were happy to see their friends. For the first hour or so I met and chatted, but out of the corner of my eye could see Hostess - who dearly loves my kids - talking to all the moms at the party. And in whose direction do you think those heads turned?
Yep.
In the second hour, lo and behold I was "oh, SP, there's someone you have to meet"ed to a perfectly lovely woman who Just Happened To Be Divorced! Wel, whaddayaknow? Whodathunkit? And as the evening wore on Hostess was telling me about All The Names in her cardodex and how she's dedicating herself to finding me someone and then HER mother - long ago divorced - shared with me her advice not to wait "too long" before moving on, because she'd done so and the only person she hurt was herself and then her NEIGHBOR shared with me the TOP SECRET wisdom that I shouldnt bad-mouth WAW to the kids because HIS mother had done that with HIS father and then OTHER neighbor introduced herself and said that HER sister was just divorced and would be perfect for me and when should she tell her I'm going to call and........
"Hurree Hurree Hurree! Step right up, folks! Plenty of room at the front of the tent - not now, boy, you're bothering me. Step right up and see the Divorced Man! Direct from Darkest Gloom, he breathes! He talks! He copes! Yes, step right up! The line forms on the left!"
Apparently we're quite the curiosity, we WAWs.
One thing that has been beneficial, however, has been for me to see real moms in action. I've always tried to give WAW the maximum benefit of the doubt, but her mothering is junior-varsity compared to the moms I've been observing. And make no mistake, it pains me to say that. But I have to call it like I see it. That's food for thougt for me.
And I got a good book recommendation for @aliveandkicking from the woman to whose house I was presumably supposed to slip away for a quickie, because in her sitch she was married to someone who sounds an awful lot like Monsoor, but it will have to wait because I'm barely able to get this out.
