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[MichelleLT]

The kids are torn. She's playing off their emotions. She's manipulating them. It's not right.

You can control how you interact with them though. So make what time you do have fun and memorable. Set a good example for them. They will appreciate your stability and your honestly in the long run.

She is trying to get a reaction out of you. DON'T react!!!!!

When she doesn't get an equally nasty reaction from you for long enough, she will get tired of it. She doesn't KNOW that it hurts you, she is trying to make you feel some of the pain she is experiencing.

She is taking out her own misery on everyone else.

Oftentimes the nastiest stuff precedes a slow rise to more civil interactions because she will have exhausted those emotions, and your civil reactions back to her will set an example for her.