So its been awhile since I posted last. Here's what's been up.
Came back from family trip to NYC last eve. Went with W and kids. It was our exchange student's 18th b-day present. The trip was planned last fall before the Bomb was dropped.
We spent a whirlwind Fri-Mon. touring Manhattan. Did Chinatown, Little Italy, Chelsea, Central Park, Wall Street, Midtown etc.
The preparations to the trip make me think this is going be different from our family trips of the past: Each person had a carry on for the trip. We always used to have a group bag of toiletries, etc. W now has own toiletry bag and doesn't check on kids/me that we have ours before trip. So I take care of that.
While walking (lots of it!) on the streets W is always 100ft ahead of us - like she is on a mission or something. Sometimes waits for us or she disappears and we have to wait for her. The kids notice but say little. In the past we would always walk together and enjoy each others' company.
She goes off to shops on her own and buys whatever and doesn't share of what she has purchased with us. Almost like she doesn't want us to know what she is doing.
We travel together, sleep in same room. W gets out early and goes to Starbucks to get coffee each morning. Its up to me to get the kids up to make the Comp. breakfast.
Its weird, like living with Jeckel/Hyde W. One minute she is joking with the kids (never with me), next she is totally quiet, detached and 100ft. ahead of us.
Sunday W appears "out of it". Detached, quiet. After going to B-way matinee show and heading back to hotel she states her back hurts and the 4 or us should go to dinner without her. We go to Little Italy and have a great dinner. Travel to Brooklyn and walk over the Brooklyn bridge with the beautiful city lights as our backdrop. Simply spectacular! This turns out to be one of the best times with the kids for me.
Monday we have an uneventful day until we get to JFK airport. We have been walking for 4 days straight so the kids and I take the conveyer belt walkway. My D says she doesn't want to walk any more and I can't blame her. Wife takes off and yells back at us to keep walking. Then W states loudly "I hate traveling in groups!" which the kids and I can hear clearly. No one says anything.
We get to our gate at the airport about 2hrs early and get ready to settle in. W is there first (of course) and finds a seat so she can FB friends on our laptop which is in my bag. S gets out computer and wife says she wants it first. S makes joke saying it will only take a minute for him to check his email. W says "I'm not in the mood!" in a nasty, threatening manner, S still hangs onto computer. W says "that's it!" and walks off. Leaves her bag and 4 of us.
We have no idea where she is nor does she make an effort to call or text us. W shows up about 10 min. before boarding, says nothing. I've taken care of the kids dinner, and ask if she is hungry - she says she has already eaten!
I feel like I am living with an alien. Someone has abducted the person that I married and left me with a self-absorbed, selfish B*tch who has no interest in being with me and barely tolerates the kids.
