So when I get home tonight, W is standing outside on the phone, as usual. I get out of the car and go into the house. Talk with the kids a bit about their day.
She comes in a few minutes later bleeding from picking zits on her chin. She says nothing about last night or anything else. I put my personal mail into my briefcase and lock it. Throw junk mail in the garbage, which she is standing over with a kleenex. I say, picking zits? She says just one. No other conversation. She goes back outside to talk on the phone some more with her sister. She continues to be her stoic self.
I go upstairs and take a needed shower. When I come down she is outside talking with the neighbor and the kids are standing around. I go outside and say hi to the neighbor and W says the kids want to go to the lake at the rec center and ride their scooters around the path, so she is going to take them. I say, have fun.
I sit on the porch with a diet coke and a cigar while W walks across the street talking to the neighbor some more. I am friends with the neighbors and they know what is going on and feel really bad about the sitch, so I figure I will hear what was said(pursuing). Finally, the kids yell at her to get going, so she comes back and into the house to get whatever it is that she needs. On the phone again. Finally they leave and I go talk to the neighbor lady.
Me: Care to share anything?
N: She didn't say much. Only that she is really stressed out and that you didn't come home last night. She said I don't know where he could have gone, and the kids were really worried.
S was at a sleepover at a friends house, so he wasn't worried, and I would assume D was in bed before I would have gotten home from softball anyway. I called D at 9am today to talk to her a bit, she seemed fine to me.
Me: yeah, W is complaining about being stressed out a lot lately.
N: Well, she made her bed, now she has to lie in it. Talked about a few other things going on, but no big shakes. Just rehash of what I have already said here, so no need to repeat it.
Maybe leaving her to her own thoughts is finally having some effect.....
We'll see what happens when she comes back and the kids go to bed. Actually, I need to go to bed early tonight. I am still worn out from last night!
