On Tuesday, my W took my 3 girls to the rock climbing gym with her. I thought this was great. Actually, I later found out that she was trying to make plans with somebody else that fell through, meaning that taking the girls was not her first choice -- but whatever, she did it and they don't know they were second choice.
Wednesday is sailboat race evening when I join 3 other buddies on the boat. This is one of the few times during the week when I completely forget about my W and relationship and enjoy myself. During the day, my W texted me if my friends and I were going out afterwards because she would join us with her GF. After about an hour, I texted back OK.
I went home a little early to spend time with my girls, I had them practice piano and I sat there to listen and offer encouragement and praise.
We did terrible in the race, but we enjoy ourselves anyway. We then went to the yacht club for drinks. My W and her GF showed up about 45 minutes later. They joined my buddies outside on the patio, while I was inside talking with some other people. I thought this was good, it showed her that I was occupied. All my sailing buddies are younger than me, 28, 30, and 35 years each. My W likes flirting with them. I joined them on the patio, got drinks for my W and GF. We talked as a group for awhile and then went to dinner at a pub. My W sat next to her GF on the other side of the table from me. An ulterior motive is to hook up her GF with somebody.
Overall, it was a good night, although I think I drank a little too much. My sister suggested to me once that my W is like this now because she is living the life she skipped over since we were married so young (when W was 20). IDK. But my W is into partying now, and she's been going out with or without me about 3-5 nights per week lately.
I take it as a positive that she wanted to be with me and my friends.
