Maybe it helped today when we left mediation, I smiled at her and addressed her as "Loser Wife". She smiled and answered back "Loser Husband", and I said "No, I'm Pathetic Husband". She said "Oh right, Pathetic Husband!" We were actually smiling and joking on our way out of mediation, a strange turn of events. We did tell the mediator to hold off on preparing the separation papers until next year. As I left her in the elevator she smiled and asked "Talk later?" I said "Sure".
