Life has been super busy, and I have been reading along with threads, but not posting. It really does get better as we are able to reclaim ourselves from this mess.
Anyway my xh contacted my youngest son to tell him a couple of weeks ago to say that he recognises that he needs to do a lot of work to repair their relationship, and is paying for him and his gf to visit him while they are staying with me for their vacation.
THEN and this is the lovely news, youngest son and gf are now engaged (post this contact).
However, it was my eldest son getting engaged that I believe was a trigger for my xh's MLC 8 years ago (there were other things, but his behaviour changed from that point). So I am wondering if this will plunge him further into his crisis.
I have heard nothing from him in nearly a month, not even a brief message about the engagement, which I slightly expected..
Fortunately they are not getting married until next year so we have time to sort some things out, I hope.