I met X and he announced that, as we were both struggling financially, he would stop paying S16's school fees. He said he'd told the school that S16 would not be back next year.
He said he'd leave it up to me to make arrangements for a new school for S16.
We met at a coffee shop and he ordered a coffee for himself and did not offer one to me.
He would not tell me where he was moving to in the new State to which he is re-locating in the next few days.
I asked him in what sense he was struggling financially, but he said it was none of my business.
I asked him if he'd thought about the impact this would have on S16's emotional well-being, saying I thought it would be an act that there would be no coming back from, in terms of their relationship.
He replied frantically: "There is no coming back from the divorce. There is no coming back from S16 calling me an @#&**^!"
By this stage he was gesticulating rather wildly and people were looking at us. He then stormed off.
We saw his car parked at the local hotel/restaurant on our way home from school again - for the third time this week (as is pretty typical).
His insistence on meeting to announce all this coincides, to the day, with OW's departure for her annual 3-week shopping holiday in Paris with her mother.
My life is so mad, I can no longer even think about it as actually happening. It seems like a dream or a story that's unfolding for someone else.
