See hope, want to get there

[Gnosis]

Meantime, still concerned with trip. Working on another option.

I hope you can find one...

Don't think there would be a porblem as S24 would be there. What causes me concern that W changed ticket from her trip without my opinion, leaving me an a$$ if I didn't pick her up.

May I suggest this option? Oops... somethings come up... a business opportunity. Sorry, not going to make it this weekend. W, I'm so glad you're there to look after grandson. Have fun. I'll try come down next weekend.

Your W is a master manipulator isn't she? Look at what she's doing to you... making you live in fear. Here you are worried about looking like an a$$... ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Come on D! That's ridiculous.

Something she could use through the girls, family to make me look bad. I want to eliminate as much fuel as I can, so shes has nothing to encourage any one else to keep the fire going.

Nope... you're looking at this the wrong way. Your kids are going to respect you for not putting up with her crap. If they say anything... you have your response ready: "She found her own way and funds to leave this house to pursue her lover, so now she can find her own way home."

And if they think you look like an a$$ for standing your ground then they are the idiots. I think you should use those same words with your W because she still thinks you're the sucker to be played with. That she is smarter than you and will ALWAYS get her way.

You need to make a stand for your self-respect sometime D. This would be the ideal time.... i.e. before she even makes it home.

Having planned to leave for business Monday, I've simply moved it up. I leave now from the airport I pick W up from, 2 hours later.

Can you see how she is still pulling your strings? Here you are having to bend backwards and modify your life and schedules to comply to her decisions... AGAIN. If you don't change this D you're back to before your started.

Simply routed return flight back to here. W can drive back w/S24 and grandson. Will give maybe 1 hour for lunch with the four of us.

OK, decent enough work-around, but I still maintain what I said above.

She already has my no option demand if she wants to come back to this house. Now it's up to her.

You want to know what's going to happen? She's not going to give you an answer. She'll hop into the car and whistle merrily all the way home. Boundary broken... wasted energy... and DISCREDIT to you.