I've been quite busy and just took a lunch break to lurk my way around the threads, see how everyone's doing. I have my S's this week and we're in the big Pine Wood Derby mode -- scrambling to get our entries ready before the last week of this month. xW is being her usual self, which I am trying to not pay any attention to. And I am struggling to re-budget my finances and to get my financial house back in order (that's going to be a very long difficult path, BTW. <sigh>)
I've got a dinner party I and the boys have been invited to for tomorrow evening. And Saturday is my bible study group meeting -- we're starting Max Lucado's book on the gospel of Matthew -- combined with a pizza party.
So all-in-all I have a full schedule and no money to do anything else anyway. LOL.
I spoke with my brother on Saturday. He thinks I was mad at him for hanging up on our previous call. I wasn't and I apologized to him for him thinking so -- and for busting his chops so fervently on how he's letting his family disintegrate. In this conversation we each got a bit off our chests while stressing we wouldn't be so passionate about our positions if we didn't love each other and our families. I let him know I want him to at least seek some form of legal advice, but he is adamant he doesn't want to get into a legal battle with his WAW. I responded that there's a lot of middle ground between those two points -- seeking a free first consultation is a long ways off from a huge court battle that he is fearing should he try to lend any focus to his own standing.
It was a long conversation touching on several points. It included me asking him pointed questions to detail why he asserts he is solely to blame for his M's failure. It is none of the justifiable causes for ending one's M that I listed for him -- mostly he feels his W deserves "happiness" that he believes he cannot give her. (Whatever.)
I will continue to dialog with him and get him to open up more and more about just where he's currently at, and to offer some points for him to ponder and tidbits of wisdom for him to chew on.
