Thank you U-Turn. We are having a blast up North. My wife and I took in a second cousin when he was 16 (he is 22 now, he calls me Dad and my wife Mom) he lives up here and my kids consider him their older brother. So he came over to the hotel to surprise them and swim with my S & D. My AS came from a dysfunctional broken home, hence the reason he came to live with us. My D has caused this man as much pain as it has me.

So it's nice having the "kids" all hanging out together again. It's made this trip really special, plus I took a TON of pictures and have been posting them on FB for my family/friends to see. Kids are laughing, smiling and having fun, I am doing the same thing, yet dying a little on the inside.

So we have our first divorce mediation session next week. Anyone go to one of these before or know much about them? Our mediator said he will ONLY take payments from us because he doesn't think we will go through with the D. The guy has been doing this for 25 years, so that gave me a little hope. But what am I walking into?


Me: 38
W: 32
S10 D6
T: 10 (02/2004)
M: 7 (12/2007)
Separation 02/2015
OM confirmed 01/2015,
D mentioned 12/2014
D finalized 9/2016