My thoughts on you post were again how much like teenagers MLCers really are. When they want to do something they want to do it now. Your D wanted a car, she didn't want to wait on her dad. Her dad wanted to go see ow, didn't matter at the time that D was car shopping.
These are the consequences for the MLCers choices. It still astounds me that they can not make that correlation. In the end the LBS still gets the blame...
I think you handled your convo with your H very well.
Good luck with your meeting tomorrow and as Snodderly stated, I, too, am sorry that you're going through it at this time of year. With that said, I'm glad you're taking steps to protect yourself and D from further MLC fallout. Your H is still running, who knows what else he might come up with to make himself 'happy'. You don't want to have to pay dearly for anymore than you already are.