Hitting the "jealousy button" would be a winning option in your situation. Imagine this scenerio:
daughter: Mommy we got new friends. wife: oh really? daughter: yeah, Daddy's friend Jolene has 2 girls too, we go to the park, and for ice cream, they come over and watch movies and we went out to red robins for dinner friday night and we stayed up past midnight playing. wife: oh! $hit. this isnt what i planned for. it didnt take him little over a week to come up with a plan to move on with his life after I walked out on him. and this other guy his feet smell.
Which translates to me as "Guess what, Mommy, Daddy is using us as pawns to tell you about his new girlfriend and kids so you'll get jealous and come home!!! I can't wait to tell my therapist when I grow up!!!"
If we have to go back to my wacko nut burger term, I'm using that with anyone who would actually date someone else and bring them home and introduce them to their children. I'm reading your example above and i'm trying to figure out in my head why anyone would ever do anything like that.
Why does dating translate to bringing dates home and introducing them to the children? The dating would be for tristan, not his children?! Am I missing something here?
The example that's quoted above and the fairy tale dialogue shown should never happen IMHO. I can't see any logic behind this whatsoever.
