Gonna be different now, (butterfly in hurricane).

[Big Bruce]

Hi 25yearsmic,
You are right, my lawyer said the alimony is not forever. Still, I find it unfair. The access times will be renegotiated end of June, so for the moment I'm stuck with that plan.

I said that if I went back to France now, it would be a different jurisdiction, and I'm not sure that from Canada she could do anything. On top of that, in France, the Leaving spouse is at fault, especially if she left with the kid that is considered abduction, and cannot claim money, where in the province where I am, they don't consider who left or not. Worse, because she happened to be with our S, everybody thinks it's normal she gets to keep him, but by what magic?

Anyway, I didn't even mention to you the half of the property in France thing, because they want to plead it next time. We will plead unequal division, because it is obvious that when we married, I had all the money in my bank account, and she had 0. She can't three years after get away with several tens of thousands.
I was only mentioning for now, the sum of spousal support, plus the childcare she claims to pay to her mum {she can claim any number, that's where I don't get it}, plus child support, equals almost half of what I earn. But she works part time, and added to the money I have to give every month, she earns more than me!
A student that makes more than an engineer who works full-time!

So, thank you for your preliminary advice concerning my behaviour around her, I'll try and pretend it's okay for me to pay all of it every month...

On our Thursday meeting, apparently, she agreed to drop our S every other time. (although she has been promising things and didn't keep her word in the past seven months), so we will be around each other, at least for 5 seconds at a time.

Now, do you think an email like that one is profitable at this point :
Hi W,
Mr. XXX (her L) is right in one thing, we will have to cooperate now and build trust between us. I will take the parenting course like I said, go by the rules we talked about and try and do my best. The idea of the S log book was a good one, and I got S one for us to write in it.
Since we have to alternate picking ups and dropping offs, do you want to start on Tuesday, or should I begin?
Take care,
B.

If this is too "pursuing" at this stage (two days after hearing), knowing that she was super-sullen and looked very angry on Friday, any ideas of how I should hold the stick?

Alright my friends, any idea is welcome, just shoot, I'm all ears,
Bruce