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[kolja]

With the benefit of a few more hours to look back on it, I think I handled this one better than last week. At the end, when I said I would think about what she had told me about why she wanted as much as she did, she sounded exasperated that I didn't basically give her the go ahead to file with the understanding that we've agreed on the settlement, but there was no hostility. Nothing like "you caused this!" and "you [expletive] disgust me."

In itself that seems like a bit of progress.

Of course, it's probably not going to go as well when I tell her I can't do the amount she's asking for (considering the tenants in Nevada move out at the end of march and who knows how long it will take to find renters after that, I have a fairly legitimate point there I guess - but I think it's going to go over poorly). She really seems to want us to agree before filing. I guess that's where I say it might be best to have other parties negotiate something as fair as it can be to both of us, and remove us from the process...

I still feel PHYSICALLY a little strange after the potential out of state job news. I'll be spending the rest of the evening with the proverbial mental stop sign, working that one out of my head. It's probably the hardest thing to detach from since she announced her intention in the first place.