Thanks AJ, You know it seems like the medical profession is so full of both men and women who, as soon as they are done with school and residency, up and leave the person that stuck by them while they really needed someone there for them! Maybe something to do with the personality of people who become MD's? Somehow more prone to having MLC's?
Sunday my W threw in a dig about the fact that when she wasn't working money was tight, like it was some kind of failure on my part as a "man" that I should have made more money. Didn't mention we were paying $16,000 a year in tuition for the kid's school, not to mention uniforms, books, house and car payments, etc. Then when I said if that was how she felt she could have gone back to work. SPIN! "OH, YOU WANT TO GO THERE, HUH?". What she said was an obvious insult, what I said was just an observation with zero judgement but of course, I was the "bad guy".
You are so right about what I should have expected. Funny I had been hoping she would just stick with what she and I agreed on her taking when she called the night before. The clock wasn't part of it. I guess I had hoped she would just not try and push things...see what happens when we have "expectations" of our S's? You are right about the anger as well. Maybe she was upset when she came back because I was so reasonable the whole day, letting her keep almost anything she said she wanted. I'm sure my being happy and reasonable in front of her friend wasn't jibing with what she has been saying about me. She couldn't allow the chance to make me look bad in front of someone she wants to be on her "side" so badly? (mind reading, I know)
Thanks AJ (and Heather and TL, as well). I'm starting to pull back a bit. Kind of cathartic to get it out. Now all I have to do is call my lawyer back and see what I need to do now (was avoiding that a bit earlier!).
