Try not to overanalyze everything and just take it one day at a time. What have the interactions been like with her over the weekend?
What's up, Mr. Bond! How you're doing good yourself.
The only way right now is to let God take control; I feel like I've done what I can on my side.
I had our son two nights in a row (Friday-Saturday, due to the last of her ER rotations), but my wife and I only "interacted" on Friday afternoon via text. She just sent this: "Scotty's party is Sunday afternoon." That's it. No pleasantries, no discussions, etc.
Rather than ignore what could be seen as a rude message, I responded nicely and offering an option for a location/time for a handover (hate that word).
When my wife came on Sunday evening to pick our son up, she came in with a solemn expression of her face. On her last day as a med student, she had lost her first patient, a 5-year old child in the ER. He was run over by a car. She described to me the incident, but mostly about how she felt and how she imagined our son being in that kind of situation. We both cried a bit for that boy and our son picked up on the mood and he started crying too.
He's been more emotionally sensitive than many children I've seen; he softly sobbed for almost 20-minutes. My wife asked if they could come inside the house, which we did. Eventually he got it out of his system (well, mostly - he was still sniffling in the car) and they left.
Yesterday (Monday), my son and I had been playing water pistols for a total of 1 hour out on the driveway. On a couple of occasions (while I was filling up our pistols) I had to stop our son from running out of the garage without waiting for me and/or stopping to look out for cars. Literally right after the second time, he does it again just as mom pulls in from the main street. She immediately points angrily at me from the car, pulls up and chews me a new one.
Of course, lacking trust, lacking information/context and with yesterday fresh in her mind, she goes on to say that I don't discipline him, that I don't admit to my own faults (just like I always have)....
I became unsettled and began to defend my stance, which in hindsight, I should've just shut up.
As she bucked in, she ended something to the effect of: "You'd rather not discipline your child properly just to be popular (with him)."
Is she envious of the things/activities I've been doing with our son lately?
