Doing the "Friends" Route Pt 2...

[Abbey]

Had an interesting night. He's starting to talk about bringing daughter home after holidays. I suspect the OW will have other plans. He doesn't believe that she's trying to get him into the frame of mind that OW and daughter are a package deal.

He's still talking lawyer. He's still talking having daughter with him full time. But he still talks about OW positively. Don't suppose she's going to be so likable once her little fantasy of playing house with all her kids and him goes poof. (He swears up and down that he will NOT live with her and her kids.)

Said today, that he didn't think he'd have to move into the investment property to get his daughter with him full time. That's new. I pressed a bit. (probably too much). Said I could see daughter going to a local private school and us being involved. He liked that. We talked about reading to her, and getting her interested in reading etc. Liked that too.

Talked about living arrangements... put it in his mind that he should have a secondary investment property. (It's one of my boundaries so that if he goes off his rocker again... my security is no longer threatened.)(I intend to buy a house that will be in my name and mine only, even if we live in it together.)

He then got a bit shakey when I asked him a question saying: Is what I said ok? He then said: We'll see, see how long this all takes.

I'm aware he's not done the necessary distancing from OW to go too far into this but I wanted to see if his brain is still engaged. It seems to be in spirts and bits. He even has a name for daughter to call me. (It's a play on my name).

All in all, not a bad 24 hours.