W is dropping S off tomorrow AM early and leaving for Los Angeles for the weekend as mentioned in a previous post. She's going to drive. In a sense, I think 6 hours on the road one way might be a good thing.
I have not mentioned the trip at all since she brought it up earlier in the week. It has taken a lot for me not to ask about it. If she's driving alone.....what she and her friend are going to do while she's there. I also want to check her car, tell her to be safe and to call me if she needs anything. HOWEVER thanks to some reading, deep introspection, and some great posters on this board I'm not doing any of that. At this point in WAW world I would strongly suspect that she wants her independence and wants to prove she can do things without me - so I am taking a big step aside and getting out of her way. I don't think I'll say as much as "have a good trip". Not that I don't care - I care a lot. I just want her to not feel the least bit smothered or "fathered" by me. It's really hard to do. But again, I a, committed to this.
