Thanks, AS. I really appreciate your support.
He's not just the engineer, he built the carriages and laid the tracks.

I know I shouldn't be bothered, but the PATTERNING in this weird state of mlc constantly amazes me.

XH is currently traveling around the adriatic with OW - he didn't tell me or the kids he was even leaving the country - and he is visiting all the places I travelled to before I met him.

Last year, at this time, he did the same - only then he sailed around Turkey on the same private yacht.

I always waxed lyrical to him about these destinations: Istanbul, Dubrovnik, Greek Islands, Venice.

So he now he's ticking them off, one after the other, like clockwork.

Probably just me, but I find more and more that NOTHING on this ride is accidental.

In hindsight, I can even see his recent, out-of-nowhere questioning of me about whether I had any travel planned - like, yeah, I'll use beads to barter a plane fare! - as pure projection.

Within days of asking me, he had left the country, without telling us, to go on a luxury private yacht trip around Venice and the Adriatic coast.

His MO for spending, while away, is interesting.

He is down to a debit card which he replenishes with $500 every 2 weeks or so. He spends amounts of around $200 at a time, buying lingerie for OW or paying for occasional restaurant meals.

Just often enough to make it seem like he has money.

She must pay for the rest.

In reality, he's usually down to just over $100 on his debit card. I see all the transactions online on an old shared account he is using.

Mixing it with the multi-millionaire yachties in ports like Hvar and Korcula on the back of one very slim wallet and a gullible enabler.

It's like a movie. In fact so close to the 'She Devil' plot that it scares me/makes me feel mad (as in insane).