Ok, I have been thinking and assessing for todays meeting for myself. I am open to constructive criticism and feedback from ANYONE below on this.

In Short, I do not want to make today easy, or a 'win' for WAW.

For Mediation today.

My Goals:

-Minimize my actual Goals so as to not have get tripped up by my own plans or thoughts!
-Remain Confident, Calm AND assertive during the meeting. These are things I am not good at, so I want them my #1!!!!
---- Help by counting to 5 in my head if I need to during the meeting

- Finances
-- Agree to child support
-- Keep 'No' as my default position on everything else!
------ I don't want to be a 'yes' man or pushover, I want WAW and mediator to have to work on me to say 'yes' and have a good reason to do so.

- Housing
-- We need to sell house
-- If I have to move out, convert to child support, move bills to WAW's name, and have her paying mortgage until the house is sold.
-- If I have to move out, I need to liquidate some of the retirement funds so I can get setup in apartment, furniture, etc.

Her Plans:
She and is going to ask for me to pay for everything, including her health care, and wants her 'half' of the assets.
--- I want to make a point of, if she wants half of our assets, that her inheritance should be in play, as we would not have much right now if it was not for MY inheritance that came to us BEFORE we were married, and she has said recently that her inheritance is OFF the table.


M: 41
STBXW: 41
D: 9
Bomb: 4/26/09

On board the D train now..

"Suffering is when we try to change what we cannot."