Hi all,

Feeling very sad today. Between work stuff and the home stuff, I'm starting to crack. Hopefully, tomorrow will be better. My wife and I were in a meeting together at work today, and I could barely make eye contact with her. Also, now that we agreed to a sharing arrangement with our younger daughter, she sent me a detailed email, like a *deal memo*, outlining the arrangement....just so that there's no misunderstandings. The detail is one thing, it's the corporate feel of the email I found off-putting.

Cathy has the *dance* between the wife and I nailed. It really is a dance, and I have referred to it as such to my friends And you're also right that we have no idea how to break the cycle of this bad communication. I expect relationships to be hard, but I wonder...should any relationship be as hard as mine is? We have to work so much at this, and we just end up in the same place.

I'll be back on tomorrow morning, and will check Corri's mp3 file. I think I recognize it, but need to listen to it.

Goodnight everyone. Sweet dreams.

C9