By the way, W's birthday is Monday. How should I approach it? I will certainly get cards and a gift from the boys to her, but what about me? For my birthday she gave me a gift card to a clothing store, and no birthday card. I want to get her something I know she really wants, but should I? And what about a card? I don't want to pursue, but at the same time I don't want to be a jerk. Any thoughts or ideas?
Do what YOU want to do. And don't expect any good reaction from her. In my opinion you don't want to give her anything to point to that allows her to view you poorly ("He ignored my birthday!?!!").
As for the roller coaster mood/interaction swings, I think what makes it hard is we LBSs want to see progress, so when things seem good we read too much into it. I'm just trying to enjoy when things are good and still have expectations that tomorrow will be worse, so prepare for it. Just part of the game, I guess.
WAW Using God Me-43 W-40 M-14 S-11 S-9 D-7 EABomb 5/09 Separated 12/09
