After work, I bought some medicine for our son to drop off at my wife's new place. I let her rest while I played, had dinner and took care of my boy. While playing I saw one of my wife's to-do lists on the table. There were a bunch of things crossed out. What caught my eye and made my heart sink was right at top of the list: "DIVORCE PAPERWORK". It had not been crossed out along with "Transfer mailing address" and "Pay bill". Her resentment and yearning for freedom are outweighing what I once thought were her strong sense and sensibility. Y'all should see the place she's living in right now -- it's old and well, not the same as our current house. It's just sad how she is living scruffily like a single person again with a child. Yet she will probably tell you she's happy and glad to be out of our home/neighborhood, and free from me.
She even had the nerve to talk down to me about taking care of our son. It started with her suddenly thanking me for coming over last night. I told her it was my duty as a parent. Then she underhanded me and said, "Of course you should". What?!? Tell me something y'all -- should I have just let her deal with our son alone since she walked out of this marriage? Yet, my responsibility to my son is just as strong a reason to be there for him even if mom acts and talks like a jerk when she feels like it.
With that said, I can definitely take this kind of conversations, but I will admit to you that seeing "Divorce Paperwork" on that list made me extremely sad -- for all of us, especially our litte boy.
