For reasons i cannot begin to fathom, my xh has been trying to get back into all of our lives (sons, dils and my own)

He entered Replay nearly 8 years ago, and was a very mean and vengeful man for a long long time.

He called me on my birthday and then tried to invite himself to my eldest son's birthday party - his latest stunt is to invite everyone to a meal when his brother is in town, and the invitation is extended to me.

So the line-up would be OW2, bil (who encouraged my xh to leave me in the first place) my three sons (maybe) all the dil/gfs have declined to enter into the charade, and me! now I have never met OW2, but I gather she is dull and unattractive.

How would this work? What bit of planet Zog is he inhabiting. The kids have all said that they resent the fact that xh thinks he can waltz back into their lives after a long absence and everyone will say 'WELCOME' I think if I were ever to meet OW2 (why would I want to?) it would be better to meet privately first, not just have me waltz into a restaurant, as Ex wife, dressed to the nines (I have a big meeting the next day and so would be very very groomed)

And xh keeps phoning me to talk about the children and seems to want my approval for his actions. I haven't spoken to him in years, and liked it that way. I do not get it. Either OW2 is very secure or totally freaked out by all of this.

Just to let you all know that even when they appear to wake up a bit they are fundamentally crazy. I do not like who he is, and keep contact to a minimum, and that for the sake of family issues that may arise.

Xh does not get that he caused a problem and the problem has not gone away just because 7+ years have passed.