Young Couple, WAW, Kids, Individual Problems

[MarkG]

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 also found out today W got fired from her job. This makes 3 jobs in a row that will be a bad reference - 2 from leaving for separations, and 1 for being lazy at work then showing up extremely late. She has only worked retail, OM works fast food.... A WINNING COMBINATION!!! My "usual" job is hotel desk, that should be changing in a few months. Good news for me is I should triple my income, making it possible to support the fam for once. I really gotta come up with my boundaries for this - dealbreakers that include coming back cuz of things that include:

if W loses custody of the kids
if I graduate and she finds out how much money I'm making at a cool new job
if OM leaves her because "he is going to leave and I will be alone" - I don't know that it's my job to fix that anymore, it certainly wasn't her job to keep me company

But knowing me I'll probably be a sucker for her sob story. I'm hoping whatever she does it's not just enough to convince me, but enough to actually be believable to an outsider. It surely won't impress any of my friends. Speaking of, I wonder how many of her friends (previously our mutual friends) would like to know the full truth about some of her lies.... ah, the buttons I wish I could push but sadly I know better.