I am not surprised, just sad that d16 seems to have such an easy time with it. I work alone all day here; doing so for 5 days straight, while WW and d16 are in Stockholm, is not an attractive prospect. Not seeing your kid for 5 days? It is bad enough when she just disappears upstairs every evening to be with W while I am alone down here.
I emailed or texted my W about needing to communicate better, but didn't hear anything from her the whole month I was in the US.
I suppose the silver lining is I need to look for a new place, though this one is lovely. I wonder if it would make sense to rent it out - nice house on a lake - and have our rent covered that way. We would of course not have freed up capital, but maybe that is good.
I met a woman on a plane about a year ago, and we had an intense gazing into each other's eyes moment, after I finished describing EE to her, a sea of openness. She wrote a few months later saying that she had felt that openness also, and that "maybe our paths would cross again" - and though she is maybe 20 years younger than I am, maybe they should.
