MLC - standing by my man

[Mila]

I'm back in town, had a great weekend away with D. We should do this more often. I needed it. Daughter told me that WH was texting her every single day that we were away, asking about what we are doing. (Unusual, since he moved out he would maybe text her once a week)

Today he calls me asking how was the weekend. I just replied "great, we had lots of fun" and he kept drawing me into a conversation, wanting to know details of what exactly did we do, where did we go, how was the trip back. I replied politely with short answers, but did not expand on anything.

Then he said that he could come over and bring D's bird back (he was taking care of him for her). I said that D said that she will go pick it up later today. He said "I could bring it so you don't have to drive her". I replied that D said her boyfriend would drive her, told him to talk to her about it if he wants to. Then I said "have to run, have something on the stove" and as I was hanging up he quickly added "So see you in the morning for our business meeting?" I said OK, bye.

My feeling from our convo was that he felt left out from our trip and that it hurt that we went without him and had fun. He did sound kind of subdued and lonely and it sure felt like he really wanted to come over (hence the bird offer). Good...let him feel what life without his family is going to be like.