Marching forward with deal breakers in hand

[mdu]

So, beginning my experimentation plan. H txted me asking 'Did you and the kids get home ok?' Since a big thing he felt was missing in our M was talking (and it seemed he and OW used to chat quite a bit) I decided rather than txt back 'yes' I would call him and have an actual conversation. We ended up chatting for ~45 minutes. Just really light, told him all about my trip with the kids. Laughed a bit about his father and step-mother (he's staying with them). All very positive and warm. As I mentioned in a previous post, H is quite easy to read and he definitely seemed very receptive to the conversation. I think this particular experiment worked!