Are there any success stories here?

[NTX_Dad]

Well this is a strange twist of events. I've been feeling someone discouraged as the divorce starts moving again and posted this topic on here, and low and behold I got something positive out of the W.

She's pretty upset with me right now because I took our D8 to an outing and it was her first time doing this experience. My W told me last month she wanted to be there for the first time but never mentioned it since. The invite came only 3-4 days before and I only saw the W for 5 minutes and it slipping my mind.

Anyway, she missed it and is pretty upset. I have apologized over and over but she seems really angry. I told her I can't fix it but will be more mindful in the future, and I reminded her we will both miss "firsts" through the rest of our D's life because divorce [censored].

And here is where I was shocked: She said she had been feeling good about "us" the past couple of weeks, until I went and did this. That was the first time in several months I had any feed back that indicated a softening stance.

I am hoping she'll cool off in a day or so and let this incident go and get back to that "good feeling about us" again. I really didn't do it to hurt her, I just didn't think it was THAT important to her, and I certainly didn't expect her to get so angry about it. I'm just being cool, validating, and apologizing.