Glad MIL isn`t living with you anymore Cat, though of course she `s living with you through your H of course.
As to being the horrible nutty one, all this does take our heads to a crazy place.(I really did feel sucidal more than once and was jumping all over the place with my moods when the marriage broke down) so really its a shared madness, IMHO.
That`s part of the journey-working on the madness within ourselves.
I`m wondering, in fact, if H`s MLC craziness in really just another way to recover, just as valid as our DB journey. He`s certainly GALing to his heart`s content-booking concert tickets, off to any match that takes his fancy, buying the clothes he always dreamed of having, keeping fit. He`s gone very dark-minimal contact with me or the kids,rarely initiates conversation, doesn`t say where he`s going,and I don`t even see or hear his cellphone these days.
Doesn`t seem at all happy though!
At least I can manage that last step! and, thankfully, I`m able to be here for the kids.
Spoke to you on TIF`s thread, Cat re setting boundaries. How have you been on that score with your H and his paranoia.; going beserk, controlling behaviour?
Have to say since I calmly spoke to my H last week re not accepting his rants, he`s been very subdued ever since!