Okay, lots of responses and no easy way to keep them straight and in view while also keyboarding into this little box.
* Wasn't clear on Cooking Night -- I'd spoken to WAW about letting the kids have the occasional Saturday nite as Cooking Nite. There's no actual "plan" with The Boy.
* Lines of communication -- with all due respect, @polly, I don't "do" closed-off and non-communicative. That's what got me in this mess. It just embitters WAW, and now that the Mouthpieces are in the game I'd rather not have an increasingly embittered WAW. Scorched-earth litigation isn't going to do The Wee Themselves a bit of good.
* @Thinker -- what did Telephone Coach Jody say? She said do outside activities, physical activities -- not that one!! -- fun family activities. Be the Love Boat's Julie of the family. Plan lots of good stuff with the kids and, from time to time, invite the WAS -- "if you want, we're going to the beach, I'm sure the kids would be thrilled to see you." But -- key -- if WAS says no, you must already be going anyway. Sitting-across-the-table is a DATE. It requires TALK. About.... after the menus are gone, almost inevitably YOU 'n' ME. So do OUTINGS.
* @Coach. I will have to brood upon this some more. WAW is not demanding an answer, but time is of the essence. In any event it is clearly a test of some sort, and the outing would be a test as well.
