Yeah I watched your Noles win. Actually most times I do root for them, unless of course they're playing my Canes.
She still took the kids when I wasn't having contact with her. We each have 2 days during the week that we have the kids and then we alternate weekends. I would take them to her place and stay in the car. We wouldn't see each other although there were times I knew she was watching out the window when i dropped them off based on things she texted me right after I would leave.
Now if I go to her place to pick up or drop off kids I end up going inside and talking for an hour.
By late July S12 was sick of her anger (mostly directed towards him) and decided he wasn't going to her place any longer.
As far as financially, no she does not give me money outright. We discuss what the kids need and who can afford what and go from there. She's done real well in this area. At the time she equated buying stuff for the kids with making them happy so she was always buying stuff for them. Now it's more necessaties and we split that fairly even. Since things are friendly between us now it gives me a chance to practice my communication skills with her.
When she left I think she had this fantasy in her head that we would just go our separate ways and lead mutually exclusive lives. It would get to the point that she would buy the kids clothes and shoes that she would say they couldn't bring to my house. It was like they were to have a wardrobe for my house and one for hers. She tried to separate it that much. I of course didn't care what clothes they wore where so I allowed them to wear stuff I bought for them to her place. Eventually I think it got too much for her to try and enforce that she gave it up. It was like in her mind the split between us was going to be nice and neat. That's why I was really curious to see what would happen if she did carry through with the divorce because it would have been a rude awakening for as to what reality is.
