In and out of fog city

[2ndtimearoundCA]

It's a kid free week and the house feels especially quiet and lonely this morning. I have be living the every other week dad life for the past ten years. The past 7 years I have had my w with me and her kids had been with us (although they are adults now). During the beginning of my separation, I spent most of my off weeks with friends and family. I did a great job GALing during the spring and summer. I have an extremely busy work schedule right now and my GALs are taking a bit of a hit.

I have had no contact with w since Saturday and I seems like a long time because we have been in more regular contact recently. Early on I would go weeks without contact and it wouldn't seem that long.

I continue to struggle with the idea of making myself a little less available. We communicate mostly through text messages and I typically will take about the same amount of time to respond to her texts as she does mine. I am not sure if it even matters who initiates conversations, but I think we are about equal there too.

Ideally I would see w this week when I don't have my kids because scheduling would be much easier. I will probably reach out to her this afternoon to try and set something up... Things seem to be moving forward, albeit slowly. I am not sure if there would be an advantage in waiting for her to contact me and then possibly being unavailable.