Thank you for the nice words. I feel like I am heading in the direction but it is nice to hear it from others. As for the dinner/lunch...We had it. No R talk at all and it went nice.
We did have our Tuesday night dinner with the kids last night and I walked away from that a wee bit upset at myself. My youngest was being a handful at dance and dinner I and felt like I spent most of the night trying to get him to stop doing stuff that I deemed inappropriate out in public. As you know this has been one of my biggest 180's and I caught the wife looking at me a few times while I was working on kids. I by know means was acting like I used to but I could tell that W was watching me. At one point I asked her what was going on and she stated that I seemed a bit stressed tonight by the kids. I told her no and the refocused on the 180. I just hope it did not break down everything I have been building up for the last two months. I will just have to wait and see I guess.
On another note, I wore some new clothes last night and W noticed. She also made three comments about not having any money. I pulled my check out of the account last friday and have been giving her CS but she insisted that she did not care about the $.
I have the kids the next two days. No plans to contact W. Will see how things go.