Thanks so much for being so sweet and caring. I have taken the whole day for myself, not doing anything particular but luckily, I'd scheduled the day off.
The whole thing was just so unexpected that I was really thrown by it. I had no idea he'd even held onto those papers (filed last Oct. but I was never served). And we had just talked that a.m.
He tends to lose every other scrap of paper, passport, car title and everything else.
So... now I guess I sign them.
I was undecided all day between sending him an email about how dishearted I was about how negative our conversation was-- this is something that has worked very well when we have had disconnects in conversation-- or just leaving it in yesterday and leaving him with whatever he's feeling and whatever assumptions he's working off.
He really does get too much energy right now. So much for my theory about being at the end of the tunnel...