Blah day today. Saw the WAW briefly last night when she stopped by to see the kids at bedtime. She informed me that she is now laid off from her job, which didnt really pay her all that much anyway and which she had been griping about alot lately (low paying retail grind ), she says she's going to be using the time to take advantage of some State Job Retraining programs but we'll see.
Supposed to meet with her this morning to pick up where we left off the other day, but it's gonna be short since I have my last mandatory "workshop" for MY job retraining program at 1:30 this afternoon. She also takes the kids to her place today, I get them back on Saturday night since its Fathers Day on Sunday. But this coming Tuesday is when everything changes and we go to alternating weeks with the kids, thats going to be rough for sure.
Still have DYFS involved, due to the incident the other day. The lady is actually REALLY nice, which suprised me, I am or should I say was conditioned to believe that most DYFS case workers are " man haters" . We had another face to face at my place last night and some things suprised me. She actually asked me if I felt like I was a victim of emotional abuse by the WAW. I really didnt know how to answer that one, since our State has the most ridiculously broad definition of what constitutes " emotional abuse"
She told me that when she had met with the WAW she felt she came off as " abrasive " and apparently the observations of the workers colleague the other night at the hospital between WAW and me were relayed and the other case worker felt WAW was being " rude " to me.
I explained it as something I had just learned to live with , but the case worker actually seems really concerned about me and what I have endured from WAW. WAW did get caught on something though. WAW told me that she had met with caseworker prior to our hearing ( true and confirmed) but she also told me that she had been ordered to take and passed with " flying colors" a psych eval. Caseworkers eye's popped when I related that and said " Yes I met with her, but she didnt take any psych eval that I ordered, but Im going to be ordering one NOW"
Caseworker also said she will try to see if there's anyway she can get mandatory family counseling imposed, but couldnt promise anything. Obviously I am fully ready willing and able and very much desire that, not only for the kids but for us. Guess we'll see.
