More bizarre behavior from my W, but I've given up trying to understand it.
Yesterday I go to my daughters' gymnastics, and my W essentially ignores me and doesn't acknowledge me, even as I walk right up and start talking to my son. So now I'm getting the silent treatment I guess. I take my son to his basketball game, which I'm coaching, and my W shows up there after the girls' gymnastics is over. Again, she barely acknowledges me. After the game, she comes over and gives our son a drink. Just to jab her a bit I smile and say "What, none for me?" She gives me a dirty look and says nothing. So ok, she's really pissed at me, I get it.
That was transition time for the kids, so I take them and we go out to lunch. My oldest daughter and son get into a fight, and I ask what's going on. My daughter has tears in her eyes and says "I miss mommy." I just give her a long hug and say "I know, this is hard. It's not really fair is it?" She nods yes, and I say "Some things in life aren't fair."
She seems to calm down after that and we start having a fun day. That evening, my W pulls an unprecedented act, and shows up at my house unannounced. I go to the door perplexed, she is holding a little bag and very meekly asks "I made some brownies for the kids, can you give them to them?" The kids knew she was at the door, so I respond "You want to come in and give them yourself?" She perks up and says "Sure!" She comes in and the kids are all spread out on the sectional sofa, we just finished playing Wii games, and were settling down to watch the football game. She gives the kids each a brownie, and says "H, if you weren't allergic to chocolate, I would have brought one for you too." She sits and visits for a couple minutes while the kids eat their brownies. Then she says goodbye to the kids and gets up to leave. She sees a picture from my marathon I had framed and says "H, that picture looks great. Wow." I replied "Yeah, they took a bunch, but that one really come out great." Then she sadly says "Well, goodbye. Thanks, H."
What's cool for me is, the whole thing didn't really affect me at all. I just rolled with it, and when she was gone, we just went back to what we were doing. It had no lingering emotional effects.
