Thanks, Zew, that must have been tough to write about.....and much harder to go through it.
Easy to write about. It was surreal to go through. I was put in a situation that I would never have imagined, because of the damned posse b1tch who thinks my W has a right to make my life hell. It's like a game for them now.
Now if I have that question "Have you ever been arrested..." I can no longer say no.
It would be easy for me to hate my W now, and yet I don't. And as much as I don't want a D, I feel I have to start that process. And not because I'm running to something, but I think I have to get away from this. We're about 16 months away from 15 years. 15 years is a milestone for alimony calculations. I want to be done in front of that. W will still have time to figure things out while that clock is running, if she ever wants to.
My immediate quandary is what, if anything, I want to say to her as she leaves on vacation. I'd like to suggest is that she turn her phone off for 2 weeks and figure out what she wants to do. What I'd really like to tell her is that if she doesn't want to work on M, then she shouldn't bother driving back.