My story

[EyeTie]

So, the WW knew I was going to be back with the kids today around noon. We usually do the "Sunday handoff" at church otherwise.

While I was an hour away (about 10:20) she called, fuming, screaming and swearing at me "Where the f#$@ are you with MY kids you motherF@#$#$!" I said calmly "1 I am an hour away from your place, 2 they are OUR children and 3 do not EVER talk to me like that! I do not talk to YOU like that, you have NO right to talk to ME!" she then hung up.

She then text a minute later saying...

"You need to text me when you're about 15 min away because I'm not home. Or let me know where to meet you to get my children"

I wrote her back and said "They are OUR children. I am 70 miles away, so be at your place in an hour.

I got to her house in less time than I though, waited 10 minutes before calling her. She said she was a couple minutes away and showed up in 15 (about 30 minutes after I said I would be there). She didn't say a word, just walked into her house, angry and upset.

I gave my kids a hug, told them that I had fun and left.

About 2 minutes later she sent me this.

"I've treated you unfairly today. I am sorry. There are some things bothering me that we will need to discuss at some point."

My response was "You were way out of line and have been very disrespectful towards me, more often than not. I will NOT tolerate it anymore. We can talk whenever you like."

Her response. "That's just fine. We can try to make this work and we're going to have days like this I imagine. I don't agree that I'm disrespectful "often" and it doesn't really matter to me anymore whether you agree or not since you've always had such a screwed up view of who I am."

My response was "We are going to have days like this. Where frustration and confusion set in. Also, I have never had a screwed up opinion of who you were. I was always proud of you. I was always your biggest cheerleader." and left it at that.

She is very self-conscious and I know that any criticism would send her into a tailspin. I think that is why she was so easily converted to a WW. Like seriously, it was like being on eggshells. She could say "What do you think of these boots with these pants" and there was no right answer. If I said she looked "fine" she would then decide that I was wrong or if I said that they didn't look good together, it would send her in a rage. Ah, fun times.