Wife wants best of both worlds

[Cie la vie]

DW,

Man this cruise thing is addiing insult to injury. I know you'll handle it well but I feel for you. Your sitch seems to be three to six months ahead of mine and I'm learning from yours as things move forward.

The OM intro is coming down the pike for me sooner rather than later, and if my STBX has any vacation time forthcoming with her new job I'm confident I'll have some kind vacation BS to deal with as well.

Again the kids just make all of this way more complicated and troubling. I agonize over how it could and in all likelihood will negatively affect them. Yet it seems to me that our respective X's don't factor that into any of their decisions. Or they are just to blinded by the so called fog of their new relationships to recognize what they are doing or care.

Outside of the kid factor I'm doing quite well. I still find myself occasionally dwelling on how sad the whole mess is but the roller coaster ride is definitely smoothing out. Anyway hang tough and good luck. I'll be checking in to see how you are doing.