I'll try and visit the sites of those that recently posted to me.
The latest in the STBX "CONTROL FREAK" saga. S12 and D17 were with me last night. D17 asked S12 this morning: "Did you call mom last night?".
S12 is usually so laid back, I need to check for a pulse. He said "On no!" and started crying and punching a pillow on my couch" I said "What is THIS all about?" He replied "Mom will yell at me because I didn't call". I said "You forgot, so what?"
He retorted: "You don't understand, she'll flip out because I didn't call". I replied "Why? It's not like you're in Afghanistan. You saw her on Monday night?"
D17 then interjects "It's his mother, she wants to hear from him".
D17 suffers from the "Stockholm Syndrome", where she is terrified of her captor, and therefore sides and idenitifies with her. (Also, if she pis%es off STBX, the now infamous "Jeep" is taken away)
I remember years ago....2001.....an episode where D17 then 8 years old had an incident with STBX, where she said to STBX in a terrified voice over and over "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry".
This was the first time I actually stood up to STBX and said "I know why she reacts that way. No one wants to feel your wrath!"
STBX then responded to me "So, I'm a shi&&y mother?" (Wha' hapeen?)
I wanted to say "The phone I bought him also takes INCOMING calls, so the psycho bi&ch from hel& could have called him....but that was just in the "thought bubble" above my head, so no need to cyber-scold me!
S12 wimpered all the way home, as though he was going to the gas chamber.
I dropped him off and ten minutes later he texted me, "See, I told you this was going to happen. It's so stupid". STBX actually reamed him because he did not call her the night before. While you all think I may be embellishing these stories for a "sympathy vote", this is JUST what happened. Ya' can't make it up
She is an awful human being. It's good to see how an impending divorce has made her a better person. I also don't think she's overjoyed that I'm happy and found someone that I'm crazy about.......remember....she's the one who said to me on July 31, 2005: "Don't you want to find somebody who will knock your socks off?" (Yechhhhh!)
