I've Come Full Circle #27

[ClingingToHope]

How the kids will handle things going forward is going to be interesting. After my dad, my mom had two serious boyfriends, one fiance, and two husbands in, get this, 17 years.

The first boyfriend was a fisherman. I was not. We never took to each other. The second wasn't athletic but he was funny and smart. I liked the guy. They married but it fell apart in about five years. I still see him. The fiance is a long story, but I worked long and hard to submarine that one because I didn't want to move.

Then she went out for several years with a really nice guy she should have married. I was gone by then, off to college and real life.

The last guy she met on the Internet several months before she died. She married him had plans to move to K.C. when she had an aneurysm. For this three-month marriage, the guy got 50 percent of her estate.

I've never asked my sister who she liked and didn't like.

When I look at my girls, D7 is someone who just latches on to whoever is around and fun. She'll always love me but I could see her being fine with whoever ends up in my life and STBXW's life.

D10. Hmmmmmm. She's very close to me and she really, really, really, really, really wants us back together. She's an actress. She'll pretend its OK but she's going to struggle big time.

I'm just guessing, but I don't think any of this bothers W right now. She refuses to discuss the M with the kids at all. Her parents stayed together even though they had an awful M. My guess is that she grew up wondering why and never really saw M as a covenant.