I find it difficult not to care about the fact that I can't control it -- know what I mean? Can't control a child's crying? It's not about fixing.. it's about 'being'
Somehow I'm not getting the point across.
I'm not talking about fixing another person's parenting.
I'm not talking about not being able to control a child's crying.
I'm saying that it is frustrating to know that I can't control the soon-to-be-ex-Mrs.-SP's parenting when I see the results in a child's face, which is what I care about.
I care about what the soon-to-be-ex-Mrs.SP does only to the extent that it hurts a child, and then I care only in the sense stated above -- that it precipitates a what-the-fark-could-she-be-thinking? moment
I'm not beating my head against a wall, I'm not ruminating, I'm not keening, I'm not raging against the gods -- I'm merely seeing a person who shouldn't be hurt get hurt and am (justifiably, I believe) irritated at the source of the hurt. If it were my mother, for example, I'd be just as annoyed.
So it doesn't mean I want the soon-to-be-ex-Mrs.-SP "back" or anything -- I merely wish (and if wishes were horses, even beggars would ride) that she would stop f*cking the children over.
