Thank you dejavu and Beatrice. I am very conscious that I don't become the emotional ow - it seems a fine line between allowing communication to remain open, but still remaining detached from it all as nothing has actually changed.

I get the impression from sx2 that ow is not going to be around for long, I think its a case of h working out how he is going to end it as they are now financially tied together .... the hole is deep !! but as its been pointed out - actions speaks louder than words, plus just because he has ended it with her does not mean I am on his radar - it just means he is single again.

I have no intentions of changing my path, its still all about me and my boys. He is still spinning away in the corner and I don't see that changing any time soon.