Hope and heartache

[ClingingToHope]

Waiting for a call from a friend to go out. I'm going to at least get out for one drink.

Here's a question to C-Bart and GIMA and others who ended up filing. How much did the kids play a role in the decision or the timing.

D10 is a great girl and really wants us to get back together. She sees how well we got along at Christmas and is just jazzed at the possibility.

I have not done a good job of dampening her enthusiasm.

A few weeks ago -- even after I told her not to ask W things like this -- she asked W what was going on with us.

W refuses to talk to her about our M at all. What she told D10 was that when she decides she's going to tell me about it first because it affects me most of all.

By filing, I'm not just giving up on the M, I'm giving up on her dream.