WHG: Chasing that rabbit with the pocketwatch

[workinghardguy]

@Bklyn

I guess I am naive, who would want to put there kids through this, again?

Oddly enough, I think precisely because she HAS done this once before she feels it's easier to do a second time. After all, it's not like SS and SD haven't already rode this rollercoaster. And S has seen the "two-house" family from afar his entire life as well. In fact he's never actually known a family where everyone is home all the time and doesn't go off to some other parent's house.

@OT

I'd be concerned about SD's comment too.

I know. While from my own perspective I thought "thank you... thank you SD for seeing this for what it is" my heart also breaks that this is what she thinks of her mom now. I wonder how it will effect her own R's in the future.

Unfortunately our state does not offer mediation. It's just going to get ugly b/w XH and W. SS and SD will get caught in the middle, and at a time when they are already caught in the middle. W and I certainly aren't trying to "put them in the middle" but I would think kids feel that way to some degree no matter what we intend.