My Story...grass is greener (pt 2)

[MarkG]

Agreed [CityGirl], but it's awesome you're starting to see what people are telling you. Don't apologize to me at least, and I doubt if you really owe anyone else here an apology except yourself. I suppose I shouldn't speak for everyone. What I'm saying is none of our lives were impacted by your stubbornness, only yours. This isn't to say you're going to do everything perfect either. Today I had court for the social services case with my kids, W and OM were there, and after waiting 15 min for court to start I realized I had a staring problem. I didn't notice W or OM having a staring problem, but then W developed a staring problem. She put her sunglasses on in the courthouse outside the courtroom and laid her head on OM's chest while staring at me. I got the finger no less than twice (it was the scratch the temple kind). We waited a whole hour for court to start, the 1st 15 min being my staring problem and the last 45 min being W's. Amazingly OM didn't even glance, I was impressed. After court W and I exited the same door as each other, and my mom and OM exited a different door. While W and I were waiting for the other 2 she gave me dirty looks, I just sat there blank. She whipped around & walked off... whatever she needs to do to make herself feel better I suppose. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. All we're suggesting for a start is detach (which you have), show optimism, ignore her negativity in her presence then vent about it here, and then work on GAL and furthering yourself. Sounds like you've come a long ways today, congrats.