Going straight forward...antlers 6th thread.

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My son and I are still on vacation. The night before we left, he and I were coming out of the store and we ran right into STBXW and her mother. They both completely ignored me...like I wasn't even there. Son didn't have much to say to either of them. We left after a couple of minutes.
He and I drove to Las Vegas...1150 miles...a road trip. We've been having a good time. He's enjoyed the spectacle of this place.
I really think he prefers to stay with me these days because of what I've become...compared to the way his mother is now. Instead of accepting this truth, she continues to blame me for "lying to him" about her.
She continues to assert that she "did nothing wrong". Yeah right...ripping apart his family, trying to take he and his sister away from their dad, trying to destroy his dad financially, not to mention the cheating and lying...she's convinced herself that none of these things have an adverse effect on him or his sister!
My son and I are going out to the dam today, then he wants to go check out some more of these huge hotel/casino complexes.
I treasure the time that he and I have been spending together. More challenges are ahead as school will be starting for him, and I go back to work, and the legal proceedings pick back up.
I haven't had any kind of relationship since she left. I am 'still married'. I don't want to have to be validated by another person. I don't want to approach another relationship from a position of neediness or weakness. I want to approach it from a position of strength.
I wish things weren't this way, but they are.